Chords for Moshe Yess - Yosef My Son

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_ _ A child was born [C] into this world in [G] 1933, _ _ _ [Am] a blessing [C] for a Jewish home [G] in Frankfurt,
Germany.
And [Dm] his father taught him [Am] olive base.
[G] He learned to read and write.
[D] Each night he heard [G] his mother [Am] say these words to him.
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Yosef, my son, [Dm] the [G] Lord our God [Am] is one.
[Dm] _ God is very [G] near.
Yosef, [C] my dear.
_ _ _ [Dm] _ Yosef, [Am] my son, [F] we are the [Am] chosen ones.
[Dm] Do not fear, we'll always [Am] be together. _ _
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Yosef [C] was a boy of [G] nine in 1942.
_ [Am] He had a [C] secret hiding place [G] like all young children do.
_ _ [Dm] _ Horrified, [Am] he saw them [F] take his mom and [Am] dad away.
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Alone, he [F] heard his mother's [Am] final words to him. _
_ _ [Dm] _ [Am] Yosef, my son, _ [F]
take some food [Am] and run.
_ [Dm] _ God is [G] very near.
Yosef, [C] my dear.
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Yosef, [Am] my son, [F] we are the [Am] chosen ones.
[D] Do not [F] fear, we'll always [Am] be together. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
To feel his [C] hand on the Western Wall [G] was a lifelong dream come true.
[Am] He made it to [F]
Jerusalem, [G] the city of the Jew.
And he opened [Am] up his siddur, [F] as he [G] had done each [Am] day.
[Dm] And he prayed to [F] God for his mother and [Am] his father. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
And an old man stood [F] there praying [G] for a son he thought long dead.
_ [Am] That voice, [F] that's my father's [G] voice, was all that Yosef said.
[Dm] And he looked [Am] into the old man's [F] eyes.
Tears came [Am] down his face, [Dm] and he fell [F] into his father's [E]
embrace.
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Yosef, [Am] my son, [D] the Lord our [Am] God is one.
_ [Dm] Come, [G] your mother's here.
[C] Yosef, my dear.
_ _ [Dm] _ Yosef, [Am] my son, a miracle has been done.
_ [D]
From now on, we'll always [Am] be together. _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ [Am] Yosef, my son, [F] the Lord our God [Am] is one.
[Dm] _ God is [G] very near.
[C] Yosef, my dear.
_ _ _ [Dm] _
[Am] Yosef, my son, [F] we are the chosen [Am]
ones.
[Dm] From now [F] on, we'll always [Am] be together.
_ _ _ _ [Dm] From now on, [F] we'll [G] always be [Am] together. _ _
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