Yad Vashem

Never say that you're going your last way

Although the skies filled with lead cover blue days

Our promised hour will soon come

Our marching steps ring out: 'We are here!'


From green lands of palm to lands with white snow

We come with our pain and our woes

And from where a spurt of our blood falls

Will sprout our strength and our courage


Today the morning sun will accompany us

And the night will fade away with the enemy

But if the sun waits to rise

Like a password this song will go from generation to generation


This song is written with blood and not with lead

It's not a tune sung by birds in the wild

This song was sung by people amidst collapsing walls

Sung with pistols in their hands


So never say that you're going your last way

Although the skies filled with lead cover blue days

Our promised hour will soon come

Our marching steps ring out: 'We are here'!


Zog nit keyn mol az du geyst dem letsn veg,

Khotsh himlen blayene farshteln bloye teg;

Kumen vet nokh undzer oysgebenkte sho,

S'vet a poyk ton undzer trot – mir zenen do!


Fun grinem palmen-land biz vaytn land fun shney,

Mir kumen on mit undzer payn, mit undzer vey,

Un vu gefaln s'iz a shprots fun undzer blut,

Shprotsn vet dort undzer gvure undzer mut.


S'vet di morgn-zun bagildn undz dem haynt,

Un der nekhtn vet farshvindn mitn faynt,

Nor oyb farzamen vet di zun un der kayor-

Vi a parol zol geyn dos lid fun dor tsu dor.


Dos lid geshribn iz mit blut un nit mit blay,

S'iz nit keyn lidl fun a foygl af der fray,

Dos hot a folk tsvishn falndike vent

Dos lid gezungen mit naganes in di hent.