Simon Says

My name is Simon Wiesenthal, and I’ve spent now fifty years;

On tracking down the old Third Reich, now, it “me” they truly fear!

For in my youth I was so scared of them, they called us “filthy Jews”;

But now I’m playing “Simon Says”, for the world to punish you!

As a youth I lost my Father, a casualty of World War One;

He was an officer fighting for Austria, who was felled by an enemies’ gun!

We lost the war, and foreigners then came as per accord;

They disliked Jews and one of them, scarred my face with his sharp sword!

After graduating college, I became an engineer;

I set up shop and married Cyla, we loved each other dear!

But in thirty-eight the Russians came, closed me down, and gave me a new job;

Had I not had money for some bribery, we’d have landed in Siberia to sob!

The Nazis came in forty-one; we worked in railway plants;

My Cyla escaped through the “underground”, I was sent to camps!

I ran away, they brought me back; I tried twice to slit my wrists;

But the Nazi Doctors saved my life, isn’t that an eerie twist!

In forty-four some SS guards, took the prisoners on the run;

Now just down to thirty-six, a hundred thousand had begun!

Finally, in forty-five, the Americans rescued me;

At six feet tall, I weighed one hundred pounds, a bag of bones I be!

But slowly then my health returned, and I found my precious wife;

We’d both lost most our families, who’d lost their kindred life!

We landed back in Austria, and I then made up my mind;

To never stop tracking these criminals, and wreak justice on all I’d find!

It started out at Nuremburg, soon after World War Two;

With the trials of many officers, who had slaughtered many Jews!

Their arrogance had disappeared, as they cried and for mercy they had pled;

But the Judges were not buying it, and gave them sentences be dead!

I opened my new office in Austria, in Linz, again a city “proud”;

For they’d eradicated it of the vermin used to be; the “filthy Nazi crowd”!

The leads came in from far and wide, every day my files grew;

If you had ever worn the Swastika, there was a good chance I’d find you!

I was good friends with Ben-Gurion, and Golda Meier too;

They both called up and said to me, we’ll send Mossad to you!

And then my business really grew, for there’s no team on this earth;

That Nazi hunts as well as them, for they’ve hated them since birth!

We learned that many had fled Europe, and then to South America they ran;

Particularly to live in Argentina, for Juan Peron said “yes you can”!

I’m sure they gave him millions, to get him to say okay;

So we started there to concentrate, and kidnap them away!

Our greatest coup was Adolf Eichman, a name on our “Top Ten”;

We found him outside of Buenos Aires, and we brought him home again!

We also got Franz Stangl, the Commandant who raved;

And Karl Silberbauer, who sent Anne Frank to her early grave!

We captured tens of thousands, and gave them their “fair due”;

Before they died we smiled at them, and said “This is for the Jews”!

I’ve worked for fifty years at this; the Nazis fear my name;

For my name is Simon Wiesenthal, and “Simon Says” my game!