He's a wise old man
who chose to tell me,
tales of horror that
he'd once lived through,
simply pulling up his sleeve,
he made me believe,
by the numbers
on his arms tattooed.
part of his punishment
for being a jew!
With four bullet scars across his body,
left by S.S. Troops and evil Nazi's
the perfect candidate for paparazzi,
to print fiction from what he claims true.
Then as the memories
in his head reassembled,
his lower lip began to tremble,
as he whispered of his missing family,
that he hasn't seen since 43...
He was the youngest
child in the Holocaust,
Just a tiny toddler then,
with an ugly past,
and as survivors go
he'll probably be the last,
so he shouted out in agony......
Chorus-
If you're Jewish or
Gypsy, or Black or gay,
If your government mistreats you
hear what I have to say,
Don't let anyone just come
and take you away,
you've got to fight
back tooth and nail,
you've got to make them pay...
go down fighting, take a stand,
doing all that you can,
or you'll wind up like me....
the last Holocaust man.
He wept when he told me
how they took his mother,
and put her in a gas chamber
to choke and smother,
and how they shot down his dad
right in front of his face,
after making him dig
his own burial place,
Then all his brothers and his sisters
and his grandparents fell,
cause they chose to do nothing
thinking all would be well..
Then he pleaded to me
one more time.....
Chorus-
If you're Jewish or
Gypsy, or Black or gay,
If your government mistreats you
hear what I have to say,
Don't let anyone just
come and take you away,
you've got to fight
back tooth and nail,
you've got to make them pay...
go down fighting, take a stand,
doing all that you can,
or you'll wind up like me,
the last Holocaust man.
He said to "Beware of
all your duly elected,
lest someday you and
yours are selected,
arm yourself and
always stay protected,
extermination must
not be accepted.
Then he closed his eyes
and went away somewhere,
in that land of his dreams
that only holds nightmares.
Chorus-
If you're Jewish or
Gypsy, or Black or gay,
If your government mistreats you
hear what I have to say,
Don't let anyone just
come and take you away,
you've got to fight tooth and nail,
you've got to make them pay...
go down fighting, take a stand,
doing all that you can,
or you'll wind up like me,
the final Holocaust man.
yeah, you'll wind up like me
The final Holocaust man.
Art~Whimsically Yours Studio
Matthew F. Blowers III-(c)-2020
Image by Dimitris Vetsikas from Pixabay
