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Dave Curley - Mr. Sugihara​’​s Eyes

from Beneath White Stars: Holocaust Profiles in Song by Various Artists

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In the summer of 1940, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, stationed in Kovno, Lithuania, requested permission to write visas for Jews who wanted to flee Europe with their families. Japan denied his plea, leaving him with a dilemma: obey his government or obey his conscience. Encouraged by his wife, Yukiko, he wrote 2,139 visas, saving thousands of lives.

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Mister Sugihara spies
Eyes behind the gate
If Tokyo denies his pleas
Escape may come too late

For Jews the world’s a spinning wheel
From Kovno to Japan
The consul wires his appeal
Tokyo halts his plan

With furrowed brow and sleepless eyes
Whose law should he obey?
His hand can save them with his pen
Not a moment to delay

In school he learned “Do much for others”
His mother was a samurai
Master of eight languages
Makes him the perfect spy

Sugihara and his wife
See these men as brothers
Expecting little in return
Doing much for others

With furrowed brow and sleepless eyes
His conscience he’ll obey
His hand will save them with his pen
Not a moment to delay

Steadied by Yukiko, writing
A visa for each in line
The measure of this man’s reply
Two thousand, one hundred thirty-nine

Two thousand, one hundred thirty-nine

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from Beneath White Stars: Holocaust Profiles in Song, released July 20, 2022
Music by: Dave Curley
Lyrics by: Holly Mandelkern

Vocals, guitar, mandolin, and bodhrán: Dave Curley

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