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FREIHEIT
02:04
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FREIHEIT –
Words and Music G.S. MacLeod
From life to death
For gold on the Siegesaule breast
The trees from Tiergarten
Have grown back from the darkness
Freiheit
The chancellery is dead and buried
Like the missing eye of Nefertiti
Hermes and Aphrodite
Confide in me
Freiheit
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THE HOSPITAL 1945
03:43
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THE HOSPITAL 1945 -
Words and Music G.S. MacLeod
You were born, in January 1945
An ice cold winter,
I’m in labour and barely alive
No taxi’s and father’s up from the underground
The Hospital 2X
You were born in Berlin
Of broken windows and cardboard panel views
I walked there daily, to bring food to you
I’m avoiding the gunfire, because that’s what mother’s do
The Hospital 2X
Too weak, too small,
So drink up Oma’s carrot juice
Because what little milk I had
You refused
You were born, in January 1945
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THE RUSSIAN OCCUPATION & APPLE CELLAR 1946 -
Words and Music G.S. MacLeod
When the Russians entered the city
We moved to my Grandmother’s
She had just lost her husband
Women alone in fear
Instrumental
We hid in the apple cellar
To avoid rape by marauding troops
A lodged Russian officer
Spotted us and vowed to save us from the hords
Instrumental
This is life for women in wartime 2X
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HOME MY FATHER AND THE RAILWAYS –
Words and Music G.S. MacLeod
Intro
My father disapeard again
In the railroad tunnels of Berlin
Until the end of the war
He would approach our back door
Home, my father on the railways 2X
Looking for the babys clothes
On the line in rows
To make sure his family
Was alive and doing fine
Home, my father on the railways 2X
solo
Driving the S Bahn
From Pankow to Bernau
Driving the S Bahn
From Wittenau to Grunau
Home, my father on the railways 3X
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THE BLOCKADE & AIRLIFT (Die Luftbrücke) 1948 – 49
Words and Music G.S. MacLeod
There’s no food in the fields
Many had to steal their meals
Why is it now these strangers,
Give us the hour?
Stalin’s blockade
A city to be saved
2 million inside
The western divide
Far from their homes
Allied airmen have flown
They are not changing course
To Tempelhof
Oh Luftbrücke 2X
Clay built the airbridge
So Berliners could live
From her window she counted planes
One, two, three and off again
A plane every minute
With clothing, food and coal
The Rosinen Bomber flew low
Candy for the kinder, to raise morale
Far from their homes
Allied airmen have flown
They are not changing course
To Tempelhof
Oh Luftbrücke 4X
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SCHOOL YEARS
02:06
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SCHOOL YEARS –
Words and Music G.S. MacLeod
Singing, dancing and laughing
Skipping, learning and romancing
We carried our leather satchels to school
And had one hot meal today
Singing, dancing and laughing
Skipping, learning and romancing
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SCHOOL YEARS (Bertha von Suttner) –
Words and Music G.S. MacLeod
At Bertha Von Suttner
I met my best friends
Our teachers love to teach
In peacetime again
With my high school friends 2X
We listened to American Music, on the old 78’s
Elvis, Ray Charles and Harry James
With my high school friends 2X
We listened to American Music, on the old 78’s
The Big Bopper, Chuck Berry played
With my high school friends 2X
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THE WALL (Willy Brandt’s Cry) 1961 –
Words and Music G.S. MacLeod
When the wall was built
August 61’
The following day
Many were gone
Missing students
Fleeing through the sewers
Escapees hosted
By our teachers
Berlin will live
The wall will fall
Many were captured and beaten
White crosses near Unter Den Linden
Shots by Vopos in death strips
Wreaths layed for Guenter Litfin
The wall will fall
Berlin will live
Berlin will live
The wall will fall
The wall divided us
For 28 years
Grafitti words against barbedwire tears
The towers taugh us concrete resilience
Berlin will live
The wall will fall
The wall will fall
Berlin will live
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CHECKPOINT CHARLIE
04:05
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CHECKPOINT CHARLIE –
Words and Music by G.S. MacLeod
Here we are at Check Point Charlie
The crossing between east and west Berlin
Separated from friends and families
A divided generation within
In the 80’s I married Jean
He worked in the GDR
Your love brought me through
Back and forth to you
Instrumental
Adversity made us strong
Since that time we have traveled far
Four children abroad
To you I deadicate this song
Instrumental
I believe it is possible
To be from two different cultures
And to live in peace
It is what I wish for the world
I wish this for the world
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10. |
UNTER DEN LINDEN
02:54
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UNTER DEN LINDEN –
Words and Music G.S. MacLeod
Great capital, bullet ridden
Fractured columns, freedom forbidden
Ghost solidiers, Cyrillic signs
Total oppression, city divide
On Unter Den Linden
Brandenburg Gate, Cold War state
Kennedy calls, to take down the wall
Friede cry, cry Freiheit
Never forget, this night
On Unter, On Unter den Linden
Solo
The beauty is back, the trees are green
The boats are in, in the Spree
Your hair is Goth black, eyes are Wagner green
I ask you to mary, marry me
4 X On Unter, On Unter den Linden
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G.S. MacLeod Montreal, Québec
G. S. MacLeod is a descendent of Hiberno-Norse immigrants, he grew up in Montreal's multicultural community where he was exposed to blues, rock, jazz, folk, Celtic, punk and world music. MacLeod has written skillfully woven a lyrical tapestry in French and English to create an original Canadian storytelling voice from the pedigrees of ‘Rambling’ Jack Elliot, Gordon Downie and Daniel Lanois. ... more
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