Many And The Few Chords

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[Intro 1]
[C][Am][C]

[Verse 1]
My name is King [C]Cyrus,
my order I give,
You Jews can go back to [Am]your home
To build [C]your holy temple again
In the land [Am]of P[C]alestine.

[Verse 2]
We've sung [C]and danced
o'er the hot rocky road[Am]s
[C]Back to [Am]Eretz Yisroel's land
We [C]worked with plow and rake and hoe
[Am]And we blessed t[C]he works
of our hands

[Verse 3]
My name is [C]Ezra the Teacher man
I brought my [Am]scroll book along
[C]I brought my flock to Yisroel
From that land called Babylon

[Verse 4]
I'll read you my [C]Talmud Torah
book
And the prophet's [Am]dreams to you
[C]And you'll be fertile and multiply
If you keep [G]your Torah [C]true

[Verse 5]
My [C]name is Alexander the Great
More than half of this wide world
[Am]is mine
Come [C]stand around,
my servants [Am]all
I'm wrapped on my bed here [C]to die

[Verse 6]
As the King of Syria [C]and Palestine
Antiochus the Fourth, you'll [Am]stand
To [C]kill the Jews if they re[Am]fuse
To worship our idols and [C]gods

[Verse 7]
My name [C]is Hannah, my first born son
Now stands before this [Am]king
[C]Guilty of keeping the Sabbath [Am]laws
By the soldiers I see him [C]slain

[Verse 8]
It's one by [C]one my seven sons
In front of my eyes cut [Am]down
For [C]keeping to the Torah [Am]laws
I pay with my warm blood [C]now

[Verse 9]
My name is Mattathias, [C]I've
got five sons
In Modin City we [Am]dwell
They [C]tried to make me bow
down to their gods
Two [Am]of the King's flun
[C]keys I killed

[Verse 10]
A hundred [C]or more who'll fight
to be Jews
Did come to these hills [Am]with me
[C]On my death bed your leader
I'll [Am]name
'Tis Judah, [C]the Macabee

[Verse 11]
My name is [C]Judah, the Macabee
By the name of the hammer
[Am]I'm called
[C]We'll pray to God before every [Am]fight
Till all of our enemies [C]fall
Appolonius, the Governor, this day I killed

[Verse 12]
[C]And his
army we did [Am]bust
Some [C]few of his soldiers
run away in [Am]the wind
But most we've dropped dead
[C]in the dust

[Verse 13]
[C]
Syron is my name, from Syria came
To destroy that [Am]fool Macabee
[C]My army was great, his army was small
But [Am]he somehow did win over [C]me

[Verse 14]
To [C]deliver the many to the hands of his few
For God this is no trick at [Am]all
In a [C]few short hours my army did break
And we [Am]flooded this valley with [C]blood

[Verse 15]
My [C]name is Lysias, I dreamed up a plan
To burn the Jews tents as they [Am]slept
When [C]I got there, their tents were all bare
And [Am]the Macabee's army had l[C]eft

[Verse 16]
He stormed [C]my own camp as
my soldiers did sleep
And he killed several thousand in [Am]fear
My [C]elephants,
my horsemen, my footsol[Am]diers, all
[C]Judah hammered them down from the rear

[Verse 17]
[C]
My name is Jerusalem
where Judah came back
To build up my Temple once [Am]more
To [C]cut down the weeds and thorny brush
That [Am]grows 'round
my windows and [C]doors

[Verse 18]
Whole stones, whole [C]stones,
we'll build and pray
To God as a wholehearted [Am]Jew
God's [C]love the hateful many did place
[Am]In the hands of a God loving f[C]ew

[Verse 19]
[C]We found in our temple
a little oil jug
Just enough for the lamps for one [Am]night
That [C]one little jug burned Eight whole
days
And it kept our new
temple in light

[Verse 20]
Eight candles [C]we'll burn and
a Ninth one [Am]too
Every [C]New Year that [Am]comes and [C]goes
We'll think of the many in the hands
of the few
And thank God we are seeds [C]of the Jews
[C]