12 WORDS ABOUT WOJTYŁA

PART ONE

CHORUS:

Time is running eternity is waiting
Inscription on the wall of the church
Karol the younger read every day
As soon as he met the letters

VERSES:

1. The clock in the belfry beats
Small town of Wadowice
There is an alley by the church
And a two-story house…

2. Not very rich Mr. Wojtyła
Rented two rooms
Karol senior, non-commisioned officer
There the Polish Pope was born

3. Early The Lady of home died
Died the older brother of the Pope
The average sister also died
Probably in infancy

4. Stood at the goal little Karol
Into the church the ball fell
Jurek Kluger was in this class
Karol liked many Jews…

5. A little better he was in learning
He had the makings of an actor
Everything the war changed
The boy gave his life to God

6. Studies he did extraordinary
On underground secret courses
When He dismissed the First Mass
This chapel was empty

7. Roma he visited at such times
When the echoes of war thundered
Across the green border he was walking
In great fear, illegally

8. Made friends with youth
He was for students a chaplain
A script he arranged to help them
Learn about love which “doesn`t betray”

9. Early got Karol the Episcopal ordination
To the communists he did not give in
For twenty years in Polish Peoples Republic
In Nowa Huta he was guarding the Cross

10. Early he became a cardinal
And the Pope he was “premature”
Early very Ali Agcza
A bullet in the heart wanted to hit him

11. Ten times he visited Poland
The same times he was in Africa
Ten times he has been to Asia
And in friendly America

12. Ten times to Arabs
And to former demoluds
He traveled the Soviets
But they did not him in the Kremlin!