[Home Page] | [Programme] | [Songs] | [Performances] | [Links] |
Sea Green Singers - Hold the Fort (Chorus) - Score on one page (verse and chorus);Chorus |
Hold the Fort - Music: Philip P. Bliss 1870 - originally a hymn 1. We meet today in freedom's cause CHORUS: 2. Look, my comrades, see the union |
3. See our numbers still increasing; 4. Fierce and long the battle rages |
|
Notes: According to Labor Arts this had been recorded by the Manhattan chorus on Timely Records in 1937. "Hold the Fort is based on the lyrics of a song sung by the British Transport Workers Union, with music by Philip Bliss. Its origins date back to the Civil War and then the Knights of Labor in the 1880s, before being adapted by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)." |