When we heard the news that we were to be arrested We had no doubt exactly what our fate would be We had hours to get out, only hours to be tested For five thousand people to cross the Baltic Sea
We had to go at night in the cover of the darkness There’s no way I could exaggerate the threat We tried not to make a sound, wore nothing that would mark us But no one knew how far across we’d get, and
I thank God for the fishermen who gave us a ride And took us over to the other side
To find so many boats ready for the journey To find so many prepared to risk it all Not everyone could read the stars, not every boat was worthy Not everyone prepared to heed the call, but
I thank God for the fishermen who gave us a ride And took us over to the other side
Some risked everything for free, accepting nothing but a handshake Some charged enough to live on for a year But such details don’t matter when so much is at stake When all that matters is a boat that you might steer
We lived out the war in Sweden while so many others didn’t And most people now would easily agree To say we deserved asylum would simply be redundant In the boat lift of 1943
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