Intro
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Verse 1
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Now you who gather joyfully beneath the festive lights
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And warm each other soulfully with all of your delight
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Take not too much comfort in this song
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Eor what you choose to elevate from what was cast below
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Is but the tidal whimsy of the seas you do not know
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& may well turn asunder before long
Chorus
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A beauteous sound, a diamond I have found
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A diamond I have found beneath the snow
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Buried in the ground, 'neath a ruddy mound
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'Neath a ruddy mound where nothing grows
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The guests are almost ready for the dancing to begin
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They've come to toast the wedding between Zion & Berlin
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So raise a glass up to the bride & groom
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But don't confuse the Deutsch & Yiddish, nor the night & day
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& if a Kaddish sounds like Kiddush, bow your head & pray
[Dm] [E]
We never step upon the glass too soon
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A shayn gesang, an oytser far a klang
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An oytser far a klang, vi fun a khupe
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Tsespaltn fun a shverd, bagrobn tif in drerd unter der kupe
Interlude
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[D] [E]
Verse 2
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So weigh your fortune carefully when prophesy reveals
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That decadence & revelry can undermine your zeal
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& turn the prophesy upon its ear
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For in the dying embers of a century of blood
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Is all we must remember to avoid the coming flood
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Of prophesies we all refuse to hear
Interlude
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Bridge
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For singing broken melodies to songs in broken tongues
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Cannot erase the memory of bells already rung
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Nor can it unring the ones we hear
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So let the broken birds return upon their painted wings
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& let the broken words be burned unto the songs we sing
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Till every note is new unto our ears
Chorus
[Am] [E]
A beauteous sound, a diamond I have found
[Dm] [E]
A diamond I have found beneath the snow
[Am] [E]
Buried in the ground, 'neath a ruddy mound
[Dm] [E]
'Neath a ruddy mound where nothing grows
