Charles Aznavour They Fell Lyrics

They fell that year they vanished
From the earth, 
Never knowing the cause 
Or what laws the offended,
The women few as well 
And the babies they tendered.
Left to die left to cry 
All condemned by their birth.

They fell like rain
Across the thirsty land,
In their heart they were slain, 
In their god still believing 
All their pity and pain, 
In that season of grieving 
All in vain all in vain 
Just for one helping hand.
For no one heard their prayers, 
In a world bent on pleasure 
Form others people care 
They simply closed their eyes
They create allot of sound
In jazz and right time measure
The trumpets screamed till dawn
To drown the children’s cries.

They fell like leaves 
Its people its prime,
Simple man kindly man,
And no one new his crime 
The became in that hour 
Like the small desert flower 
Simply covered by the silent wind 
In sands of time.

They fell that year 
Before a cruel foe 
They had little to give 
But their lives and their passion, 
And their longing to live 
In their way 
In their fashion 
So their harvest can 
Thrive their children can grow. 
They fell like flies 
Their eyes still full of sound 
Like a dove its flight 
In the path of rifle 
That fall down were it might,
That holds on with its might
As if death were a trifle  
And to bring to an end 
A life barely begun.

And I am of that race,
Who die in unknown places
Who perished in their pride,
Whose blood in rivers ran, 
In agony and fright 
With courage on their faces 
They went in to the night, 
That waits for every man.
They fell like tears 
And never new what for 
In that summer of strife 
Of massacre and war 
Their only crime was life 
There only guilt was fear 
The children of Armenia  
Nothing less nothing more