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Sea Green Singers - Internationale - Eugene Pottier original words - score and lyrics, page 2/2 - Page 1/2 - To see the score on 1 pages. Right-click on the image to download the scores onto your computer and choose 'save image as' or similar.
this is an arrangement by Sarah Westcott using the original Eugene Pottier words

  Internationale - Traditional version
(for a score with the original words set to the Billy Bragg arrangement click here)

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.

We peasants artisans and others
Enrolled among the sons of toil
Let's claim the earth henceforth for brothers
Drive the indolent from the soil
On our flesh too long has fed the raven
We've too long been the vulture's prey
But now, farewell the spirit craven
The dawn brings in a brighter day

No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E'er the thieves will out with their booty [give up their booty]
And to all give a happier lot.
Each [those] at the forge must do his [their] duty
And strike the iron while it's hot
[ And we'll strike while the iron is hot.]

No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we'll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They'll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We'll shoot the generals on our own side.

Verse 2 requested by Levellers Day Committee for Levellers Day, May 16th 2015 to replace verse 2 above.

2. No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we’ll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They’ll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We’ll shoot the generals on our own side.

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