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Albertine Tab

by Brooke Fraser


Intro:   

				     
I am sitting still, I think of Angeline 
			    
Her mother's voice over me 
					   
And the bullets in the war where it fell silent 

 
On a thousandth hill,  
		 
I think of Albertine 
				 
There in her eyes what I don't see 
	    
With my eyes 


			
			

 
Rwanda, 
		 
Now that I have seen 
	 
I am responsible 
			 
Faith without deeds is dead 
				 
Now that I have held you in my own arms 
			 
I cannot let go til you are 

			


 
I am on a plane 
		    
Across a distant sea 
		    
But I carry you in me 
		       
In the dust on my feet 

 
Rwanda, 
			 
Now that I have seen 
	 
I am responsible 
			 
Faith without deeds is dead 
				 
Now that I have held you in my own arms 
			 
I cannot let go til you are 

Intro:   

	 
I will tell the world 
			         
I will tell them where I've been 
		 
I will keep my word 
			 
I will tell them, Albertine 

 
Rwanda, 
			 
Now that I have seen 
	 
I am responsible 
			 
Faith without deeds is dead 
				 
Now that I have held you in my own arms 
			 
I cannot let go til you are 

					 
I am on a stage, a thousand eyes on me 
			 
I will tell them Albertine 
			 
I will tell them Albertine