(verse)
G5
Light one candle for the macabe children
G5                              E5
With thanks their light didn't die.
C5
Light one candle for the pain they endured
C5                                B5
When their right to exist was de-nied.
E5
Light on candle for the terrible sacrifice
C5                   A5
Justice and freedom demand.
G5         E5             G5         E5
Light one candle for the wisdom to know
        C5            D5          G5     B5
When the peace makers time is at hand.

(chorus)
E5             A5
Don't let the light go out.
     D5                  G5     B5
It's lasted for so many years.
E5              A5
Don't let the light go out.
       D5                              G5   B5
Let it shine through our love and our tears.
E5             A5
Don't let the light go out.
     D5                  G5     B5
It's lasted for so many years.
E5              A5
Don't let the light go out.
       D5                              G5   B5  E5
Let it shine through our love and our tears.

(four measures of E5 before next verse)

(verse)
G5
Light one candle for the strength that we need
G5                       E5
To never became our own foe.
C5
And light one candle for those who are suffering
                        B5
Pain we learned so long ago.
E5
Light one candle for all we believe in.
C5                       A5
Let anger not tear us a-part.
G5             E5        G5          E5
And light one candle to bind us to-gether
     C5            D5           G5     B5
With piece as the song in our hearts.

(chorus)
E5             A5
Don't let the light go out.
     D5                  G5     B5
It's lasted for so many years.
E5              A5
Don't let the light go out.
      D5                              G5   B5
Let it shine through our love and our tears.
E5             A5
Don't let the light go out.
     D5                  G5     B5
It's lasted for so many years.
E5              A5
Don't let the light go out.
       D5                              G5   B5  E5
Let it shine through our love and our tears.

(four measures of E5 before next verse)

(verse)
G5
And what is the memory that's valued so highly
                             E5
That we keep it alive in the flame?
C5
What's the commitment for those who have died
                                 B5
We cry out they have not died in vain?
E5
We have come this far, always believing
C5                           A5
That judgement will somehow prevail.
G5           E5      G5           E5
This is the burden! this is the promise!
    C5           D5           G5  B5
And this is why we will not fail!

(chorus)
E5             A5
Don't let the light go out.
     D5                  G5     B5
It's lasted for so many years.
E5              A5
Don't let the light go out.
       D5                              G5   B5
Let it shine through our love and our tears.
E5             A5
Don't let the light go out.
     D5                  G5     B5
It's lasted for so many years.
E5              A5
Don't let the light go out.
       D5                              G5   B5
Let it shine through our love and our tears.

E5            A5
Don't let the light go out!
E5            A5
Don't let the light go out!
E5            A5
Don't let the light go out!