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Some Billy Bragg for you all:
There Is Power In A Union
There is power in a factory, power in the land Power in the hand of the worker But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand There is power in a Union
Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers blood The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud War has always been the bosses way, sir
The Union forever,defending our rights Down with the blackleg,all workers unite With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands There is power in a Union
Now I long for the morning that they realise Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us But who'll defend the workers who cannot organise When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us?
Money speaks for money,the Devil for his own Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone? What a comfort for the widow,a light to the child There is power in a Union
The Union forever,defending our rights Down with the blackleg,all workers unite With our brothers and our sisters together we will stand There is power in a Union
The Internationale (adaptation)
Stand up, all victims of oppression For the tyrants fear your might Don't cling so hard to your possessions For you have nothing, if you have no rights Let racist ignorance be ended For respect makes the empires fall Freedom is merely privilege extended Unless enjoyed by one and all.
CHORUS: So come brothers and sisters For the struggle carries on The Internationale Unites the world in song So comrades come rally For this is the time and place The international ideal Unites the human race
Let no one build walls to divide us Walls of hatred nor walls of stone Come greet the dawn and stand beside us We'll live together or we'll die alone In our world poisoned by exploitation Those who have taken, now they must give And end the vanity of nations We've one but one Earth on which to live
And so begins the final drama In the streets and in the fields We stand unbowed before their armour We defy their guns and shields When we fight, provoked by their aggression Let us be inspired by life and love For though they offer us concessions Change will not come from above.
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