Lyrics

I’m Not Leaving

Am C
Krystyna LopaTenko
G D
put on her nurse’s coat for the night,
in KoroSten, Ukraine. Tensions were high.
Russian troops at the border, set for a fight.
Am G D
For a fight, for a fight, for a fight. (2x)

When the first blasts shook the windows
and the tanks blocked all the roads,
most of the staff just packed their bags.
To Poland they would go.
They would go, they would go, they would go. (2x)

C G
I’m not leaving. I’m not leaving.
D
Our patients can’t just walk away.
I’m not leaving, I’m not leaving.
In my homeland I will stay.
I will stay ey ay, ey ay. (Am - C - G - D) (2x)

Khrystyna did the work of two.
Beds filled up from the bloody war.
Racing to the air-raid shelter,
would they survive like before?
Like before, like before, like before? (2x)
Chorus

Word came, her neighborhood was bombed.
She rescued her family, a suitcase and a comb.
Speeding through the smoke and wreckage
Now this trauma ward was their home.
Was their home, was their home, was their home. (2x)
Chorus

Words and Music by David B. Hakan
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