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| Internationale - Billy Bragg version 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 empire's 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. Oh, greet the dawn and come and join 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 but one earth on which to live. Chorus And so begins the final drama In the streets and in the fields. We'll resist united 'gainst their armour. We'll 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. |
| Internationale - Traditional version Arise ye workers [starvelings] from your slumbers Arise ye prisoners of want For reason in revolt now thunders And at last ends the age of cant. Away with all your superstitions Servile masses arise, arise We'll change henceforth [forthwith] the old tradition [conditions] And spurn the dust to win the prize. Chorus: So comrades, come rally And the last fight let us face The Internationale unites the human race. So comrades, come rally And the last fight let us face The Internationale unites the human race. |
No more deluded by reaction No saviour from on high delivers |