Carl Jack - We Are Your Sons

WE ARE YOUR SONS
Written August 20, 1998 ©

Two ordinary people living ordinary lives. I think the papers called them “The Atom spies”. I don’t understand perhaps I never will. Can we learn to solve our problems without someone being killed?

Julie ran a business and Ethel raised their sons. In Knickerbocker village with a home like everyone. Michael was just seven and Robby was only three. When the FBI came calling and took away their dreams.

(Chorus) We are your sons. We are your sons. We will remember after you have gone. We are your sons. We are your sons. They cannot take you from us. Your memory shall live on.

In June of 1953 they refused to compromise. The judges hid from their appeals. How could they be so blind? They were victims of the hysteria that paralyzed our land. Who will remember this woman and this man? -Chorus-

In the shadows of the death house with their time all nearly spent. Julius and Ethel wrote, “We were always innocent”. They stood by their conscience and their humanity. Who will stand for justice when they come for you or me? -Chorus-