"My People's Story" lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman / A G - (-) / A A2 - - / 1st / E4 - E - / Ages ago It began with a story The tale of my people It's one you might know My people believe This story is holy Teaching each generation The way we should go / A G A A2 / A - G E / 1st / D E A - / Tell the old tale, our ancestors' story And walk with them, hand in hand As they march to freedom, and follow G-d's glory Into a storied land So a nation was born And a country was settled Our ancestors flourished In a land of their own Growing in strength And growing in wisdom No wonder their stories Also have grown Tell the old tale, and write a new chapter Hear how my people sings Through each generation the tears and the laughter The songs of our storied kings But kingdoms will fall And peoples be scattered So history drove us To lands far away But we never gave up We spun new worlds of meaning From our ancestors' stories To chart a new way Tell the old tale, the truth never-failing The story that's kept us free In each generation, my people are sailing Over a storied sea Now ages have passed And we are still dancing Into the future By the light of those words Gathering 'round Our ancestors' stories To tell stories our ancestors Never had heard We're telling new tales, expanding, revising That's how we've learned to fly In each generation, my people are rising Into a storied sky So tell the old tale, and write your own chapter Embrace her and make her new In each generation, retell her, adapt her That's how we've kept her true