Crossing the Border

(Si Kahn)



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As a young man he traveled through Russia

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With his uncle and two other singers

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But they drafted him into the Army

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And he had to escape from there

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When the guards that they'd bribed at the border

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Started shooting at him and the others

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They turned back, but he kept on going

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And kept going for ninety-two years

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We are crossing the border

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We are crossing the border

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We are crossing the border

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Come go, come go, come go



He got passage to Nova Scotia

Was married in Manitoba

He shoveled dirt for the Canadian Pacific

Carried hod when the built the hotel

Land was a dollar an acre

But he was too careful to buy it

So when they found oil on it

He still had the story to tell



Then he moved down south of the border

By the mills on the Merrimack River

He pumped gas and kept store for a living

Raised up his daughter and sons

He's sit at the head of the table

Drinking Haig & Haig pinch bottle whiskey

And I'd wonder how someone so gentle

Could have done all the things that he'd done



He got old and he lived by the ocean

I went with my children to see him

He stared through the cataracts at them

But I think that he saw them just right

We buried him up in New England

And maybe that's home for the wanderer

But home is where the heart is

And my heart's with my Zayde tonight



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