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Di Fayer Korbunes
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DI FAYER KORBUNES The Fires Sacrifices
Lyric by Louis Gilrod Translation by Allen Lewis Rickman and Yelena Shmulenson

e Fires Sacrices
e hour rang Work ended in the shirtwaist factory e workers collected their pay ey hoped to get home early Suddenly, horror Terror A scream A hellish re breaks out Desperate voices from all sides All struggle to escape e remens bell rings Terried girls y o the tenth oor e inferno rages unstoppable It burns living young bodies (Refrain) Who can stand there unfeelingly and watch? Who will lament the sacrices of Hells own re? e mothers cry e fathers wail and recite the Memorial Prayer for their young children Pain Shameful e sacrices of Dollar Land e sacrices of Dollar Land Away to the factory, never to return, a girl in the bloom of youth Mother at home doesnt know what becomes of her daughter Dark night brings word of the monstrous blaze e mother recognizes her daughter, burned Agony steals her reason Quickly, you brilliant people, she screams gone put up a black wedding-canopy! Grief and bewilderment push her to madness and she falls dead beside her only child (Refrain)