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Sea Green Singers - Internationale - Eugene
Pottier original words with the Billy Bragg score - score and lyrics
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Internationale - Billy Bragg
version 1. 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. 2. 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 3. 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. Chorus |
Verse 2 requested by Levellers Day Committee for Levellers Day, May 16th 2015 to replace verse 2 above. 2. No more deluded by reaction No more deluded by
reaction No saviour from on high delivers |