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Kommander's Car

from Coquette by Katy Carr

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On 20th June 1942, Polish boy scout Kazimierz Piechowski escaped from Auschwitz - Birkenau the notoriously cruel German concentration camp where 1.1 million innocent people from all faiths and backgrounds were murdered during WWII. Imprisoned for being a Polish boy scout by the Gestapo in October 1939, Kazik was transported to Auschwitz on the second Transport on June 20th 1940. Precisiely two years later Kazik's escape which was in cooperation to the secret Polish resistance movement and it's leader, the great war hero Witold Pilecki proved successful. Murdered and tortured by the Soviets after WWII IN 1948 for his activity in the Polish Home Army, Witold Pilecki had written his 'Witold's Report' which was the first intelligence report on Auschwitz concentration camp, and enabled the Polish government-in-exile to convince the Allies that the Holocaust was taking place.
The important letter that had been drafted by pilecki and given to fellow escapee Stanslaw Jastar had to pass onto the Polish home Army in Warsaw was of vital importance and luckily this escape was a success.

Little is known in the West about the Eastern Front during WWII. Poland was the most brutally treated country during the whole war. Both German [1st Sept 1939] and Soviet occupation following the 17th September 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland left the country and it's people imprisoned and as slaves to Hitler's and Stalin's brutal armies and forces. Stalin's illegal white slave trade of 2 million Polish people who were Allies of Great Britain were transported to the Soviet caoncentration camp system - The Gulags - [approx 3000 camps] which were situated in remote places throughout the USSR were placed in loactios where tenperatures could soar below -50 degrees centigrade. The Polish slaves were welcomed with the motto 'Nature is your Prison.'

I am proud to share this video with you which has given me the key to open up my own Polish heritage of which I am very proud of. I am so proud of Poland for fighting and for being Great Britain's only Ally for the first two years of the WWII and Great Britain's largest Allied Military Force after USA at the end of WWII.

FOR MORE INFO : please visit www.katycarr.com
FOR LINK TO OUR FILM 'Kazik and the Kommader's Car' : please visit www.kazikfilm.com

Music video directed by British film maker Hannah Lovell 2012

lyrics

KOMMANDER'S CAR
CHORUS
Drive! Drive! We’ve got to drive – We’ve got to drive away – hey hey!
We’ve got to drive away hey hey! We’ve got to drive away hey hey!
Drive! Drive! We’ve got to drive – We’ve got to drive away – hey hey!
We’ve got to drive away hey hey! We’ve got to drive away hey hey!
VERSE 1
50 m is all that lies between us Come to me baby Come to me and save me
CHORUS
Drive! Drive! We’ve got to drive – We’ve got to drive away – hey hey!
We’ve got to drive away hey hey! We’ve got to drive away hey hey!
Drive! Drive! We’ve got to drive – We’ve got to drive away – hey hey!
We’ve got to drive away hey hey! We’ve got to drive away hey hey!
VERSE 2
Take my hand love Out of this darkness This polish bird must FLY
and he won’t be back no more
yes he won’t be back no more x 3
Eighty metres Osiemdziesiat metrow Fifty metres Piedziesiat metrow
Eighteen metres Ociemnascie metrow Fifteen metres Pietnascie metrow
Out in the Kommanders Car! Out in the Kommanders Car!
Drive! Drive! We’ve got to drive – We’ve got to drive away – hey hey!
We’ve got to drive away hey hey! We’ve got to drive away hey hey!
Drive! Drive! We’ve got to drive – We’ve got to drive away – hey hey!
We’ve got to drive away hey hey! We’ve got to drive away hey hey!
VERSE 3 [CHORUS CHORDS]
Kazik! Zrob cos Kazik! Zrob cos Kazik! Odzknolem sie
Faktycznie przeciez oni na mnie licza
VERSE 4
My heart it beats and my palms are wet This Polish bird has Flown
Drive! Drive! We’ve got to drive – We’ve got to drive away – hey hey!
We’ve got to drive away hey hey! We’ve got to drive away hey hey!
Drive! Drive! We’ve got to drive – We’ve got to drive away – hey hey!
We’ve got to drive away hey hey! We’ve got to drive away hey hey!

credits

from Coquette, track released September 9, 2009
All songs written by Katy Carr
‘Coquette’ produced by Nick Crofts
Programming, recording and mixing by Nick Crofts
String arrangements for ‘Orchidophile’ and ‘Violetta’ by Paul Stroud, produced by Stroud & Crofts. String arrangements for ‘Berliner Ring’ and ‘Erotic Days’ Jon Cottle.
Mastered by Chris Cawte
Artwork, concept and design by Susan Burghart HYPERLINK “http://www.susanburghart.com” www.susanburghart.com
All images copyright Susan Burghart
La Coquette – Rosie Meres
Photography – Carina Frei
Recorded at 20 000 ft amsl
Musicians ‘Katy Carr and The Aviators.’
Katy Carr – vocals, collard & collard upright piano, yamaha baby grand piano, eavestaff pianette ‘minipiano,’ other toys.
Nick Crofts – analogue synths, glockenspiel, fender rhodes, wurlitzer, piano, melodica.
Jon Cottle – cello, electric bass
Sam Carter – acoustic guitar
Anja McCloskey- accordion
Geoffrey Lea – percussion and drums
Gavin Broom – trumpet
The Ivy String Quartet directed by Paul Stroud
First violin Natalee Jeremic,
Second violin Felicity Broome-Skelton,
Viola Ruth Player,
Cello Sarah Westley

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Katy Carr London, UK

Katy Carr is a British recording artist, singer, performer, songwriter and aviator currently residing in London Town, England. An independent musician, she has released five albums on her label Deluce Recordings, ‘Screwing Lies’ (2001), Passion Play (2003), Coquette (2009 ), Paszport (2012) and ‘Polonia’ (2015). New album to be released in Oct 2020 --- watch out for it ! xxx ... more

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