No Name Jan Hauenstein

(Am) (Fj7) (E7) (Am)
I remember the (Fj7)murderer in (Am)Sweden (E7) on his island (Am)stroll,
Shooting young girls and (Em7)boys,
BANG! BANG! That awful (Am)noise.
(Dm)Sixty-nine young (Am)people, and he (E7)shot them full of (Am)holes. (Fj7) (E7) (Am)

On the Christmas (Fj7)market in (Am)Berlin, (E7)thirteen people (Am)died.
They just wanted to (Em7)celebrate,
They did not see the killer´s truck un(Am)til it was too late.
(Dm) All the dead and (Am)dying, their (E7)blood a crimson (Am)tide.(Fj7) (E7) (Am)

To (G)me, it´s not a (Am)mystery,
It´s (F)easy to (E7)see why they (Am)came -
The (Em7)killers want to go down in (Am)history.
They (F)want us to re(G)member their (E7)names.

And (Am)in the (Fj7)mosques in (Am)Christchurch, the (E7)people bowed and (Am)prayed.
The assassin taped the (Em7)bloodshed,
Fifty wounded, (Am)fifty dead,
And (Dm)ugly people (Am)cheered when the (E7)video was (Am)played.(Fj7) (E7) (Am)

To (G)me, it´s not a (Am)mystery,
It´s (F)easy to (E7)see why they (Am)came -
The (Em7)killers want to go down in (Am)history.
They (F)want us to re(G)member their (E7)names.

(Bb) Virginia Tech, (Am)thirty-three dead.
(F)Sandy Hook, (E7)twenty-seven dead in Newtown, Con(Am)necticut.
(Em7)Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, (Am)Parkland, Florida, seventeen.
(G) University of Texas, (Am)Austin, seventeen.
(Bb) Columbine High School, Colo(Am)rado, fifteen.
(F) Red Lake High School, Minne(E7)sota, ten.
And the (Am)list is long, and the (Fj7)blood keeps flowing,
And the (G)list goes on and the (E7)death count is (Am)growing. (Em7) (Am)

I (Bb)don´t want to hear anybody speak the (Am)murderers´ names,
I (G)don´t want to hear so(Am)ciety´s to blame,
I (F)don´t want to play the as(E7)sassins´ game,
Let them be unnamed (Am)in their shame.
I (F)don´t want to hear you (E7)say the killers´ (Am)names. (Em7) (Am) (Fj7) (G)
(Am) (Em7) (Fj7) (G) (Am)

Those (Bb)names, sullied by blood and (Am)gore,
Let those (Fj7)names be un(Em7)spoken (hold) for ever(Am)more.

JH, Goettingen, Words 13 April and Music 14 April 2019

Dedicated to Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand at the time of the Christchurch mosque shootings, who gave her country and the world hope when hope was most needed.

Quote: Jacinda Ardern has said she will render the person accused over the Christchurch terrorist attack “nameless” and urged the public to speak the victims´ names instead.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/19/new-zealand-shooting-ardern-says-she-will-never-speak-suspects-name

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