And it's Eichmann and Himmler are turning the screws   The Fuhrer they say grows impatient   "How can it be Denmark's Jews still walk free   After three years of kind occupation?   We will take them like sheep in their beds as they sleep   On the second night of their new year   Devoutly at home they'll be helpless alone   When they cry out no one will hear"      But Duckwitz the German tells Hedtoft the Dane   "My friend I have dangerous news   In three hours the transport ships will set at anchor   You must warn them warn all the Jews"   Soon good Rabbi Melchior stands in the synagogue   "There'll be no service today   The raids come tomorrow, dwell not on your sorrow   By nightfall we must be away"      Refrain:   And it's fire up the diesel and look out for swells   We're leaving Espergaerde behind us   Who strike at our friends strike us as well   We'll pray the patrol boats don't find us   When the sirens are wailing and shouts fill the night   Never will you stand alone   So it's over the Øresund   Till the day we can welcome you home      Sompolinski the tailor on the eve of Rosh Hashana   Gathers his family near   "The Lord is my light and salvation   Whom on this earth shall I fear?"   When a young Danish gentile steps into the glow   Of the candle with tears flowing down   "Good neighbors flee - I pray you believe me"   And as quickly the young man is gone      Christian policemen, shopkeepers, and teachers   Tell their friends of the quickening storm   While students on bicycles race through the streets   Searching for Jews to be warned   And Katlev the foreman blurts out to the trainman   "My family has no place to hide"   "Well bring 'em to my house," the stranger replies   "And we'll spit in the damn Nazi's eyes"      Refrain      Ellen Nielsen the fishwife in the port of Dragør   Has no use for political views   She'll call out the catch, "Fresh salmon, fresh cod"   Comes a whisper "Please help, we are Jews"   "But if you are Jews you're not safe on the street   I know a man with a sail"   Till moonrise they sleep in the shade of her eaves   And escape on the fisherman's keel      Rabbi Melchior hires a young trawlerman   To ferry his family across   After twelve hours afloat in a scurfy old boat   Morning light shows the same Danish coast   Says the skipper "I'm afraid of the German blockade   So we've motored in circles around"   The rabbi gives a shout, with one blow knocks him out   And steers a straight line 'cross the sound      Frozen with fright in the October night   Families huddle in basements and barns   Mistaking each breath for the angel of death   The Gestapo, the shot, the alarm   Then down into the hold with the stench and the cold   And drug all the babies with schnapps   Someone shouts, "Valkömmen till Sverige   You are in Swedish waters at last"      Seven thousands of Jews smuggled over to Sweden   By fishermen, nurses, and priests   Hitler sends Eichmann to hunt them down   But his quarry have vanished like mist   When the war's over the Jews return   Cheers and flowers adorn their way home   "We're not heroes or martyrs," so say the Danes   "We were just looking after our own"      Refrain      And today we will welcome you home   And today we welcome you home