Leonard Cohen - The Partisan

(Austin has always been known as a kind of "seat of resistance")
(It's, it's a subtle, a subtle situation)
(No flags are burned)
(No offensive rethoric)
(But everyone knows, that somehow the spirit reigns free here)
(And)
(This is a song of another resistance, a long time ago)
(It's called "The Partisan")

When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender
This, I could not do
I took my gun and I vanished

I have changed my name so often
I lost my wife and children
But I have many friends
And some of them are with me, with me right here tonight

An old woman gave us shelter
Kept us hidden in the garret
Then the soldiers came
She died without a whisper, not so much as a whisper

There were three of us this morning
I'm the only one this evening
But I will go on
These frontiers are my prison

Les Allemands étaient chez moi
On m'a dit "résigne-toi"
Mais je n'ai pas peur
J'ai repris mon arme

J'ai changé cent fois de nom
J'ai perdu femme et enfants
Mais j'ai tant d'amis
J'ai la France entière

Un vieil homme, dans un grenier
Pour la nuit, nous a cachés
Les Allemands l'ont pris
Il est mort sans surprise

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing
Through the graves the wind is blowing
Freedom soon will come
Then we'll come from the shadows

The wind, the wind is blowing
Through the graves the wind is blowing
Freedom soon will come
Then we'll come from the shadows, come in these very shadows

(Mr. John Bilezikjian on the oud)
(Mr. Bob Furgo on the violin)