Tom: Am Am F In 1948 I fled my village G Am The Stern Gang drove my family from the lands F C We ran into the desert G Am Where I've spent these decades living by my hands F C Life in Haifa wasn't easy G Am But so much better than this hellhole with the soldiers and barbed wire F C And the closures, and the hunger G Am The humiliation and the checkpoints, the machine gun fire F C And each day I wonder after Haifa G Am The home that we abandoned when the Zionists had won F C Is there a family with a child G C Does it's father love it as I loved my only son F C Before the soldiers shot him down G Am Riddled him with bullets in his back and in his head F C Home in Haifa, in my house G Am Does someone's father know the pain there is in an empty bed [Chorus] F In one world C In one village G In one Home Am Let us live together F In one world C In one village G In one Home [Verse] Am F In 1960 I fled my country G Am Left the Tigris River for this foreign place F C I had to leave home, I didn't want to G Am But they were rounding up the leftists and the papers had my face F C And my son, a student leader G Am On the streets of Baghdad was nowhere to be found F C So I walked through the mountains G Am Just the shirt upon my back, knowing not where I was bound F C Now here I am, this town of Haifa G Am In this little house, but at least I'm still alive F C And each night I wonder how is Baghdad G Am Would I recognize my friends if any did indeed survive F C It took a long time, but I made a home here G Am And I wished my son could be here in this town upon the shore F C I was with my wife, it was the Sabbath G Am When an old Arab couple knocked upon our door [Bridge] F C G Am F C G [Verse] Am F We asked them in, gave them tea G Am For that's what you do with strangers, and we could see they meant no harm F C They told their story, we told ours G Am Us of our life in Baghdad, them of their family farm F C And of this house, which they once lived in G Am Where once they raised a family, long before their hair turned grey F C Of their son, and the troopers G Am And of ours, who we cry for every day F C So much in common, so much gone bad G Am So much running, and never coming home F C You can hear the cards falling down G Am See the faces of the children, forever forced to roam F C And here we were, in this house G Am Fearing that tomorrow would be just like yesterday F C So much resentment, so much at stake G Am And I really don't remember who was the first to say [Chorus] F In one world C In one village G In one Home Am Let us live together F In one world C In one village G In one Home