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Mum They Said I Killed Jesus

"A girl starts a new school in the countryside and experiences prejudice for the first time."

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Mum they said I killed Jesus

I said as I came home from school

How can they say that I’m only eleven

What would it be

2000 years ago and I am not free

To say I am different

And play with the guys

Who grew up in this

Lovely countryside.

 

Go back and tell them

The Pope has said

That one of the saints

Has been misread

It was the Roman leader

That gave the order

For a wonderful wise man

To be killed on a cross

What a loss.

 

You are the only Jew in the school

You can’t take on them all

Just don’t make eye contact

And very soon

When you are in the room

They will forget you are different

And become your friends

Show them that you have no tail

And then understanding will prevail.

 

I’ll take you back to the city soon

And you’ll go to a school

Where there will be other children

Who like you have had to be cool

And on Saturdays visit the schul

 

But mum they make me feel so sad

Do they think I am that bad

To kill a man and a peaceful one too

Do they think I come from the zoo?

Yes some of them might.

 

Why did you tell them that you are a Jew?

Its a really big problem for more than a few

Of people who don’t like the difference

But really we are all the same

Don’t think that you have to take the blame.

 

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Written by courage2bfree
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