Six Million Germans / Nakam

In nineteen hundred fourty five
Among the Jews who were left alive
There came a visionary man
Who turned his wrath into plan
Abba Covner was his name
As a partisan he earned his fame
He once was a Vilna rebel jew
A poet warier through and through

He met some surviving ghetto fighters
Zionists and socialist conspired
They gathered in a Lublin flat
Around the kitchen table sat
And gave themselves a Hebrew name
And with this word they did proclame
That vengeance is what god would will
Wether they're a god and so they'd kill

Six million Germans
You might say it was insane
Six million Germans
And it was misdirected pain
Six million Germans
They didn't want the war to end
Six million Germans
They wanted one thing
Nakam: revenge

For every Jew the nazis gazed
For every racist law they passed
For every wrong that wasn't right
For all the dept Nakam would fight
They formed a band of fourty strong
To straighten out what had been wronged
They chose to poison water mains
Just as the Jew of old would blame

In Nurameberg and Hamburg town
Their agents worked the underground
They took up jobs by the river side
And waited for the poison to arrive

Kovner went to Tel Aviv
To see what help he could receive
But the Haganah did not agree
To join in his conspiracy

Six million Germans
You might say it wan't right
Six million Germans
And an eye for an eye leaves all without sight
They didn't want to make amends
Six million Germans
They wanted one thing
Nakam: revenge

So Abba Covner headed back
With files of poisons in his sack
Upon a British naval ship
But to his plans the Brit's were tipped
They took him in to custody
And the poison fell into the sea
And Covner spent a year in jail
And so plan A did not provail

The rest of the group was all dispersed
And all their back-up plans were cursed
But an agent in a bakery
He got poison from Paris
And as soon as the poison bread had risen
He took it to an ally prison
And various reports have said
That there were hundreds of SS prisoners were found dead

Six million Germans
You might say that it was wrong
Six million Germans
But were their actions weak or strong?
Six million Germans
And who are we to judge and condemn?
Six million Germans
They wanted one thing
Nakam: revenge

So Nakam was all dispanded
On Palestina's shore they landed
And Abba Covner and his crew
Became like many other Jews
They put aside their rage and hate
And they worked to build a Jewish state
With Jewish towns and Jewish farm
And Jewish guns and nuclear arms

Now, can vengeance put up on the shelf
Be taken out later on someone else?
Well, careful how you read this tale
Unless your own prejudice provail
For look around the world today
And consider the role that vengeance plays
For history has its unpaid debts
And is it better if we forget?

Six million Germans
You might say it was absurd
Six million Germans
But what becomes of a dream differed?
Six million Germans
And how could they just start again?!
Six million Germans
They wanted one thing
Nakam: revenge!