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We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years
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The title says it all! Very powerful lyrically..
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Progressive, socialist, labor-oriented, and otherwise socially conscious folk music. <br /><br /> <br /><br />www.marxist.com <br /><br />www.socialistappeal.
Progressive, socialist, labor-oriented, and otherwise socially conscious folk music. Check out: http://www.marxist.com http://www.socialistappeal.org http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org http://www.ushov.org
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Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
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Peak #192
Peak in subgenre #41
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Words: The Unknown Proletarian Music: Von Liebich
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April 28, 2007
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MP3 1.5 MB • 128 kbps • 1:38
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I put together a video telling of this song available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5nYjLkLV9I
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We have fed you all for a thousand years And you hail us still unfed, Though there's never a dollar of all your wealth But marks the workers' dead. We have yielded our best to give you rest And you lie on crimson wool. Then if blood be the price of all your wealth, Good God! We have paid it in full! There is never a mine blown skyward now But we're buried alive for you. There's never a wreck drifts shoreward now But we are its ghastly crew. Go reckon our dead by the forges red And the factories where we spin. If blood be the price of your cursed wealth, Good God! We have paid it in! We have fed you all a thousand years- For that was our doom, you know, From the days when you chained us in your fields To the strike a week ago. You have taken our lives, and our husbands and wives, And we're told it's your legal share, But if blood be the price of your lawful wealth, Good God! We bought it fair!
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