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By: Cedric McClester It wasn’t made up no it was real Can’t you see ‘em can’t you feel The ghosts of those whose last meal Was fed at Auschwitz no appeal Death by labor or by disease Or the gassed air that they breathed While the whole world was deceived By what they could not believe I hear the echoes of the dead From Auschwitz where people fed Gas ovens whose secrets are said To dot the path of human dread The air was musty the train car cramped That took ‘em to the concentration camp Before the process was revamped They were crudely housed tattooed or stamped And they were sent there both night and day One million plus from what they say Human lives wete thrown away While we all looked the other way God made us all in any case There’s no such thing as a master race That kind of thinking is out of place And must be discouraged when it’s in our face I hear the echoes of the dead From Auschwitz where people fed Gas ovens whose secrets are said To dot the path of human dread Their liberators could not believe The level of the suffering that they relieved To them it was diabolically conceived By a people who were evil or naïve How could a human being do to another The kinds of things that they discovered Then think that it wouldn’t be uncovered Ot that the evidence could be smothered God made us all in any case There’s no such thing as a master race That kind of thinking is out of place And must be discouraged when it’s in our face I hear the echoes of the dead From Auschwitz where people fed Gas ovens whose secrets are said To dot the path of human dread                             (c) Copyright 2015, Cedric McClester. All rights reserved.
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Apr 21, 2015
Apr 21, 2015 at 4:16 PM UTC
AUSCHWITZ
By: Cedric McClester It wasn’t made up no it was real Can’t you see ‘em can’t you feel The ghosts of those whose last meal Was fed at Auschwitz no appeal Death by labor or by disease Or the gassed air that they breathed While the whole world was deceived By what they could not believe I hear the echoes of the dead From Auschwitz where people fed Gas ovens whose secrets are said To dot the path of human dread The air was musty the train car cramped That took ‘em to the concentration camp Before the process was revamped They were crudely housed tattooed or stamped And they were sent there both night and day One million plus from what they say Human lives wete thrown away While we all looked the other way God made us all in any case There’s no such thing as a master race That kind of thinking is out of place And must be discouraged when it’s in our face I hear the echoes of the dead From Auschwitz where people fed Gas ovens whose secrets are said To dot the path of human dread Their liberators could not believe The level of the suffering that they relieved To them it was diabolically conceived By a people who were evil or naïve How could a human being do to another The kinds of things that they discovered Then think that it wouldn’t be uncovered Ot that the evidence could be smothered God made us all in any case There’s no such thing as a master race That kind of thinking is out of place And must be discouraged when it’s in our face I hear the echoes of the dead From Auschwitz where people fed Gas ovens whose secrets are said To dot the path of human dread                             (c) Copyright 2015, Cedric McClester. All rights reserved.
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Apr 21, 2015
Apr 21, 2015 at 4:16 PM UTC
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