Katharina Jacob, long before she took that name Was organizing workers in Hamburg just the same Organizing beneath the flag of deepest red A new dawn of peace and freedom clearly shining in her head
Katharina Jacob first was sent to jail When the trappings of democracy all began to fail She was frequently arrested, in and out of custody While her first husband was in hiding from the Nazis
Katharina Jacob was acquitted of a crime But the gestapo had the last word and they weren’t finished with her this time She was sent to Ravensbrück, a killing hunger at her side She heard of the execution, how her second husband died
For Katharina Jacob the end was close at hand She was on a death march with a ragged, starving band Marching through a forest, being led by the SS What would happen hours later seemed impossible to guess
When the sun rose the next morning, it was the first of May And they all sang the Internationale
Katharina Jacob thought about her children And the friends and comrades taking care of them< Not knowing yet if any of them survived Not knowing that soon she’d see her daughters both alive
Katharina Jacob watched the German soldiers fleeing Streaming from the east, that’s what she was seeing Allied bombers flew above them, she thought they all might die and then Soon there was the silence of all the SS men
When the sun rose the next morning, it was the first of May And they all sang the Internationale
Katharina Jacob saw red flags flapping in the breeze Above the Russian tanks and she fell upon her knees And so many different voices in so many different tongues Sang the most beautiful song that could ever have been sung
In German, Lithuanian, in Polish and in Dutch A myriad of melodies as never had been such In Russian and in Yiddish, Italian and French Emerging from the forests beneath a trench
When the sun rose the next morning, it was the first of May And they all sang the Internationale
Völker, hört die Signale! Auf zum letzten Gefecht! Die Internationale erkämpft das MenschenrechtTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
