| English Translation by Monkey Mind
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EMBRACE THE FASCISTS | STREW ROSES IN THEIR PATH |
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You have to treat them nice and gentle | Do treat them gently, treat them nicely, |
do nothing rash, they're sensitive | Don't get them frightened, they're so frail! |
you must be somewhat sentimental | With waving palm fronds bow around them, |
respectful of the way they live | Befitting their quaint, secret hearts. |
don't let your dogs attack them on the street | Call back your dog, should it bark at them |
embrace the fascists where you may meet | Kiss the Faschists, wherever you meet them! |
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If they should call for hate or violence | And to their beer-hall agitation |
just let them talk, it is their right | Say "aye and amen - please, oh yes! |
I keep your protestations silent | Have at me now - rip me to shreds!" |
you wouldn't want to start a fight for fighting | When they club down people, praise the Lord. |
is what they do best | It is their vocation to kick and beat them! |
embrace the fascists & you'll be blessed | Kiss the Faschists, wherever you meet them! |
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And if they fire their guns upon you | And when they gun you down: dear heavens, |
is life so precious in your eyes? | Do you really prize life that highly? |
you would be sheep with wolves around you | What a pacifist fad that is! |
why not be gladly victimized? | Who would not gladly be a victim? |
And if you feel inside your guts | And though you feel it, up your belly, |
the Nazi dagger's blade | Hitler's dagger, to the hilt: |
embrace the fascists that you have made | Kiss the Fascists, wherever you meet them! |