kindertransport Lyrics

I had to send my children to the other side

I had to let them go because I didn't know

If we'd make it out alive

I gave my trust to the man who led to the other side

He looked so honest and he was so kind

They took a train and ship to make it safely across,

To the other side, to the other side

Oh and it started to snow, fluffy mist all around

& the people were crying in the cold winter's tongue

In the refugee camps from Sudetenland

& Nicki had planned to go ski, just him and his friends

But when he picked up the call he flew out just right then

He saw Jews kicked from homes and hiding from devastation

So he pulled in his friends to help

These poor children

They wrote to the capitals, they wrote to France

They wrote to the president of the US

And the only open country was Great Britain

So the families they came, to sign off their kids

One by one put each name in and prayed they'd be picked

And when our daughters' names rang through the phone

We cried but knew it was time to let them go

We had to send them both off on the train, and they made it away

Fifty years later & no one knew what he did

He saved 669 children

He just kept on with his life didn't need any praise

And his modesty carried him on