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Sea Green Singers - Internationale - Eugene
Pottier original words (1871) - score and lyrics on one page - To
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Internationale - Traditional version (1871) (for a score with the original words set to the Billy Bragg arrangement click here) - we usually sing 3 verses. 1. 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 forthwith [henceforth] the old conditions [tradition] 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. 2. We peasants artisans
and others |
Verse 2 requested by Levellers Day Committee for Levellers Day, May 16th 2015 to replace verse 2 above. 2. No more deluded by reaction |
Eugène Edine Pottier
(1816, Paris - 1887) was a French revolutionary socialist, poet, and transport
worker. Pottier was elected a member of the Paris municipal council - the Paris Commune, in March 1871. During the Commune he wrote the poem L'Internationale which became the International Workingmen's Association anthem during its last years (1871–1876), and has been used by most socialist and leftist political internationals since. |