1915
(专辑: The General Strike - 2012)
In a
letter to every president, congressman, career politician, Scrawled in spite across the
envelope With all of our conviction. In only took a
few hours for his peers To find him guilty in a
trial too fair, A
wobblie, immigrant worker has no place among the
living. "My body if I
could choose to ashes it reduce." Murdered by the
capitalist, November 1915 be careful of what you wish. Who is wrong and who is righteous? What was stolen from us we will replace, Off with the
head on the
body we feast, Who is wrong and who is righteous, Will never be our own decision. He yelled fire to the
squad with guns, they stopped his heart from beating. Every word he wrote, he spoke, he sung, we are still singing: "My body if I
could choose to ashes it reduce, And let the
breezes blow my dust to where some flowers grow. Perhaps some fading flower then would come to life and bloom again". If the
workers take a
notion, They can stop all speeding trains, Every ship upon the
ocean. They can tie with mighty chains Every wheel in the
creation, Every mine and every mill. Fleets and armies of all nations Will at our command stand still.