Seagreen Singers (Oxford) Lyrics & Song Sheets

3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 11 . SeaGreen Singers (Oxford) Levellers, Internationale Conscientious Objectors Day and Leicester Street Choir Festival Songbook - May 2016 04/04/2018 15:47:44 Lyrics & Song sheets For scores in musical notation and mp3 sound files of the choral parts for these songs look at the SeaGreen Singers website: www.seagreensingers.com The Seagreen Singers are a group based in Oxford singing songs to change the world about peace, protest, environment, feminism.

The SeaGreen Singers is named after the colour of the ribbons worn by the Levellers, a radical movement in Cromwell's Model Army. The Levellers believed in equality for all, justice, and human rights.

All are welcome to join, you don’t need singing experience, and you don’t need to read music. We meet at St.Columba's Church Hall, Alfred Street (just off the High Street, Carfax end) Oxford, on Mondays at 8pm.

For more information ring 07815 914776, or email [email protected] or look at the website http://www.seagreensingers.com

1 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 21 Singing For Our Lives (We are the Oxford SeaGreen Singers)..1 Fat Cat...... 2 Fight the cuts...... 3 I want Rosa to stay...... 3 Internationale - Traditional version (1871) 5 John Ball...... 7 Levellers Day Song...... 7 Let us in: Calais refugee song...9 Nana was a suffragette...... 9 No Going Back...... 11 Red Flag...... 13 Rosa Parks...... 14 This is my prayer for peace,....14 Tom Paines Bones...... 15 We Are All Under The Stars....16 We've sung a thousand songs of peace, 17 Which side are you on...... 17 Siya Hamba...... 17 Singaba hamba yo thina...... 18 Peace event in Bonn Square, Sun. 15th May 19 Aint Gonna Study War...... 19 Bringing Peace/Salaam...... 19 Foolish Notion...... 21 Lay down your sword...... 22 We are not just against the fighting, 22 Where have all the flowers gone23 Street Choir Festival,...... 25 Txoria Txori or Hegoak...... 25 We're all in this together...... 25 Transition Town Melody...... 27 Easy Money...... 27 Craonne...... 29 Revolt...... 31 When A Soldier Goes Off To War 33 Text to accompany 'We are all under the stars' - 34 Extracts from the Manifesto of the No-Conscription Fellowship, September 1915...... 34

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Levellers Day 2016, International Saturday 14th May: Conscientious Objectors assemble by 10.15am Day event, Bonn Square, church yard 12 noon, Sun. 15th May

1. We are the Oxford Sea 1. We are the Oxford Sea Green Singers (2.Gentle Green Singers (one verse) angry. 3. Red & green, 4. 2. Lay down your sword Oxford SGS) and shield 2. Levellers Day Song 3. Foolish Notion Sue Mike 4. We are all under the 3. John Ball Hazel stars Sarah 4. Tom Paine's bones 5. Bringing peace is on our Sue shoulders Becky 5. Rosa Parkes Liz 6. This is my prayer for 6. No going back Sarah peace 7. I want Rosa to stay 7. We are not just against Emma the fighting Hazel 8. Calais song - Let us in 8. We've sung a 1000 9. Fat Cat songs of peace 10. Fight the cuts 9. Where have all the Bridget flowers gone - with 11. Which side are you audience and signs on

3 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 11 and we are singing, singing for our lives Singing For Our Lives (We are the Oxford We are a land of many SeaGreen Singers) colours, Holly Near, arr: Ian Stirling and we are singing, singing We are the Oxford for our lives SeaGreen Singers We are a land of many and we are singing, singing colours, for our lives and we are singing, singing We are the Oxford for our lives SeaGreen Singers, and we are singing, singing We are gay and straight for our lives together, and we are singing, singing We are a gentle angry for our lives people, We are gay and straight and we are singing, singing together, for our lives and we are singing, singing We are a gentle angry for our lives people, and we are singing, singing We are anti-nuclear for our lives people, and we are singing, singing We are a justice seeking for our lives people, We are anti-nuclear and we are singing, singing people, for our lives and we are singing, singing We are a justice seeking for our lives people, 1 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 21 Fat Cat He's a bonus brat, FAT Liverpool Socialist Choir - CP CAT. Huskisson

FAT CAT, The indefensible FAT CAT, The reprehensible Leader of the Tory regime He's just like a cat with the cream FAT CAT You know you want to just Run him out of town He's unfair, He don't care, He's a millionaire He's a Tory prat, FAT CAT FAT CAT, The indefensible FAT CAT, The reprehensible Banking bailout scandalous scheme Treats him like the cat with the cream FAT CAT You know you want to just Tax him ‘til he squeals He's a cad, He's a toff, It's the biggest rip-off

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Fight the cuts Bridget Walker I want Rosa to stay Alun Parry - to the tune of 'Rock my Soul in We don't sing verse 2 the Bosom of Abraham' Harmony sing the first three words of each verse slowly over 1. Hello Rosalita, I know the top; women and men your name alternate with the harmonic line. I’ve learned to pronounce it again and again Fight the cuts, they mustn't For I got to know you and I get away with it x 3 know you well Fight, fight the cuts So I don’t believe all the tales that they tell Tax the rich and make No I don’t believe them pay for it (x3) Rosalita’s a threat Tax, tax the rich Or that she’s a strain on the national debt We want change and we're For Rosa has spirit and marching (or singing) today courage galore for it (x3) To brave every ocean and Change, we want change. land on this shore

Chorus I want Rosa to stay I want Rosa to stay I want Rosa to stay Not just today Or tomorrow But forever 3 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 41 So if we get angry at 2. Well I've read the what we obtain headlines in papers I've You need someone easy to bought carry the blame The panic that passes as And Rosa’s the one that rational thought you hope we’ll pursue Written by peddlars of So we won’t go pointing the falsehood and fear finger at you Who say it's a problem that Rosa is here. [We want Rosa to stay They want to make Roasa We want Rosa to stay their next deportee We want Rosa to stay Saying she takes resouces Not just today intended for me Or tomorrow And rich men in mansions But forever ] x2 say that's why I'm poor But I don't remember being wealthy before.

Chorus

3. So I won’t be swayed by the things that you say Cos I understand why you play it this way For I see a world that is owned by the few And run in your interest to benefit you

4 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 51 So comrades, come rally And the last fight let us Internationale - face Traditional version The Internationale unites (1871) the human race. We usually sing 3 verses. 2. We peasants artisans 1. Arise ye workers and others [starvelings] from your Enrolled among the sons of slumbers toil Arise ye prisoners of want Let's claim the earth For reason in revolt now henceforth for brothers thunders Drive the indolent from the And at last ends the age of soil cant. On our flesh too long has Away with all your fed the raven superstitions We've too long been the Servile masses arise, arise vulture's prey We'll change forthwith But now, farewell the spirit [henceforth] the old craven conditions [tradition] The dawn brings in a And spurn the dust to win brighter day the prize. Chorus: 3. No saviour from on high So comrades, come rally delivers And the last fight let us No faith have we in prince face or peer The Internationale unites Our own right hand the the human race. chains must shiver

5 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 61 Chains of hatred, greed and fear Verse 2 requested by E'er the thieves will out with Levellers Day Committee their booty [give up their for Levellers Day, May 16th booty] 2015 to replace verse 2 And to all give a happier above. lot. Each [those] at the forge 2. No more deluded by must do his [their] duty reaction And strike the iron while it's On tyrants only we’ll make hot war [ And we'll strike while the The soldiers too will take iron is hot.] strike action They’ll break ranks and No more deluded by fight no more reaction And if those cannibals keep On tyrants only we'll make trying war To sacrifice us to their The soldiers too will take pride strike action They soon shall hear the They'll break ranks and bullets flying fight no more We’ll shoot the generals on And if those cannibals keep our own side. trying To sacrifice us to their pride They soon shall hear the bullets flying We'll shoot the generals on our own side.

6 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 71 Chorus John Ball Sidney Carter arr. CatKelly 3. All shall be ruled by 1. Who will be the lady, fellowship I say who will be the lord All shall be ruled by the When we are ruled by the love of one another love of one another All shall be ruled by Who’ll be the lady, who will fellowship I say be the lord In the life that is coming in In the life that is coming in the morning the morning Chorus

Chorus: 4. Labour and spin for Sing John Ball and tell it to fellowship I say them all Labour and spin for the Long live the day that is love of one another dawning Labour and spin for And I‘ll crow like a cock , fellowship I say I’ll carol like a lark And the life that is coming For the life that is coming in in the morning the morning Chorus x2

2. Eve is the lady, Adam is Levellers Day Song the lord Jane Alexander, arr S Westcott When we are ruled by the 1. All: We fought for world love of one another where all people could be Eve is the lady, Adam is free, We fought in the Civil the lord War In the life that is coming in Tenors: To end the power of the morning. the Monarchy

7 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 81 Others: ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. Sops: Three days with no All: Seeking justice for all be hope, we carved our names sure, Others: We shall not give up Bass: As the war went on the the fight, we shall not give the rules seemed to change and fight, the generals words were lies, All: Then Fairfax shot us Others: Levellers marching, dead, He shot three levellers levellers marching, levellers dead marching, ooh Sops: We gathered and 3. All: We were known as the grew, one thousand strong levellers, a name for which Others: We shall not give up we're proud, Our belief that the fight, we shall not give the we all are equal. fight, Tenors: The levellers we All: One vote a’piece our cry, were then, and levellers we One vote a’piece our cry are now, Others: ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. 2. All: Together we marched All: We work for the good of as strong as the sea, sea- all. green was the colour of our Bass: We speak ‘gainst standard injustice for for those who Tenors: But we'd not take have no voice, we’ll stand in part in that Irish killing spree, all situations. Others: ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. Others: Levellers marching, All: We strode towards levellers marching, levellers Oxford. marching, ooh, Bass: We stopped for to rest, Sops: Remembering all those that’s where we were caught who’ve died for this cause out, Took refuge in the Others: We shall not give up church at Burford. the fight, we shall not give the Others: Levellers marching, fight, levellers marching, levellers All: The struggle carries on. marching, ooh The levellers carry on. 8 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 91

Chorus Let us in: Calais refugee 3. And the bombs you sold song are the bombs we heard Jane Lewis crashing into dust with a 1. When I open my eyes I blinding light see a barbed wire fence, And my mother and father and a hungry face and a both died that night broken tent, going round and round and when I close my eyes I see round and round in my a man with a gun, head. going round and round and round and round in my Chorus over verse? head. Please give us a place at your table, Chorus let us in, let us in (x2) Please give us a place at let us in. your table, let us in, let us in. Last chorus? Can you share of your sal- Please give us a place at mon and honey your table, Our pain is your pain too let us in, let us in. Can you share of your sal- 2. And the soles of my feet mon and honey are rubbed red and raw Our pain is your pain too from a burning treck over Our hope is your hope too Syrian sands Our life is your life too where my daughter was taken right out of my hands Nana was a suffragette - going round and round and Jules Gibb - SGS version round and round in my head

9 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 101 1. You never knew my Nana, she died some years Chorus ago Nana was a suffragette, only She lived in that old folks five foot tall home in Moss Side, you Nana was a suffragette, know, took on City Hall I used to go on Sundays, Singing... sometimes took the kids I was always so proud of 4. (Women only) Now here l what she did stand so proudly with my college degree Chorus: And my daughters have Nana was a suffragette, one more options than Nana of the last alive could foresee Nana was a suffragette, But if you think we're over ninety five satisfied, take a look around Singing "Votes for women, There's a lot of angry is just the beginning women won't let their You haven't seen anything Nana's down yet" - Nana was a suffragette Chorus Nana was a suffragette; it's 3. The proudest day in as if she's still alive, Nana's life was when thé Nana was a suffragette, vote was won their voices still survive The papers said "It's over!" Singing votes for Women is but Nan had just begun just the beginning Her Women's Committee You haven't seen anything went on to organize yet And challenged the Union, Nana was a suffragette. the Council and their lies

10 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 111 We're different women after all we've seen and No Going Back done. By Mal Finch, arr: B Westacott All women - We've learned the world's divided, and we 1. All parts - The world is have made our choice, turning, changing, with the We may have lost a battle seasons of the year, but we've found a voice. Flowers grow where once And there is... the earth was cold and bare. 3. Solo man - Life's hard if Streams feed the rivers, you're a worker, it's harder rivers feed the sea. if you're black, And the strength of my, It's hard when you are old friends will feed the change or poor or get the sack. in me. Solo woman - It's harder for a woman when she tries to Chorus: say (For there is) no going, That she doesn't think the back kitchen sink is where she'll There is no limit now, No stay going back, And there is... We're too deep in it now, No going back, We're different women now, No going back.

2. All parts - Since the miner's strike has ended a new life has begun,

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4. Women only:. Some families deny it some families understand That a woman's' rights are equal to the rights of man. So if you call me "sister" when I join your picket line, Better be there with me brother when I fight for mine..... For there is....

5. All parts - Alone I'm going, nowhere, but with friends here by my side, We'll face a better future and the storm we'll ride. All parts - We'll finish what we started, go on as we begin, We've only chains to lose and all the world to win.... And there is....

12 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 131 6. With heads uncovered swear we all Red Flag To bear it onward till we Jim Connell fall; 1. The people's flag is Come dungeons dark or deepest red, gallows grim, It shrouded oft our This song shall be our martyred dead, parting hymn. And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold, 4. It well recalls the Their hearts blood dyed its triumphs past, every fold. It gives the hope of peace at last; Chorus The banner bright, the Then raise the scarlet symbol plain, standard high. Of human right and human Beneath its shade we'll live gain. and die, Though cowards flinch and 5. It suits today the weak traitors sneer, and base, We'll keep the red flag Whose minds are fixed on flying here. pelf and place To cringe before the rich 3. It waved above our man's frown, infant might, And haul the sacred When all ahead seemed emblem down. dark as night; It witnessed many a deed 2. Look round, the and vow, Frenchman loves its blaze, We must not change its colour now. 13 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 141 The sturdy German Ain’t gonna stand, ain’t chants its praise, gonna stand at the back of In Moscow's vaults its the bus hymns are sung I’m gonna sit, I’m gonna sit Chicago swells the surging at the front of the bus throng. Coda She would not stand Rosa Parks Oh she would not stand Words and music Polly Bolton No she would not stand on the bus Structure: A, B, A, C, A, B, A, Coda This is my prayer for peace, A section This is my prayer for Oh Rosa Parks, she would peace, shalom, salam not stand for the white folk I said Oh Rosa Parks, she would not stand on the bus x2

B section Oh what a difference that woman made x4

C section I’m gonna sit, I’m gonna sit at the front of the bus Ain’t gonna stand, ain’t gonna stand at the back of the bus 14 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 151 2. (Sops) He said "I just Tom Paines Bones spoke about freedom, by Graham Moore And justice for everyone, Ever since the very first 1. (Bass) As I dreamed out word I spoke one evening, I've been looking down the By a river of discontent, barrel of a gun, I bumped straight into old Well they say I preached Tom Paine, revolution, As a-running down the Let me say in my defence road he went, That all I did wherever I He said, "I can't stop right went now, my son, King George Was to talk a lot of is after me, common sense." He'll have a rope around my throat Chorus And hang me on the 3. (Bass) Well, old Tom Liberty Tree" Paine he ran so fast, He left me standing still, Chorus And there I was, a piece of And I will dance to Tom paper in my hand, Paine's bones, And standing at the top of Dance to Tom Paine's the hill. bones, (Unison) Dance in the oldest boots I It said, "This is the Age Of own Reason, To the rhythm of Tom And these are The Rights Paine's bones. Of Man, Kick off religion and monarchy"

15 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 161 It was written there in We Are All Under The Tom Paine's plan. Stars by Ali Burns. Text to Chorus accompany song at end. 4. (Bass) Old Tom Paine, there he lies, Chorus: We are all under Nobody laughs and nobody the stars and no matter cries. how far we are apart we Where he's gone or how he are all under the stars fares, Nobody knows and nobody Sections: cares. ey ee ey ey ey ee ey ey ee ey ey ee ey Chorus: But I will dance to except 2nd Bass starting at Tom Paine's bones section 4 Dance to Tom Paine's du du du etc finishing with bones ey Dance in the oldest boots I own To the rhythm of Tom Structure: Paine's bones During the sections between choruses a text is read over the I will dance to Tom Paine's top of the choir. bones Dance to Tom Paine's The first section and chorus are bones sung by Sop/Alto/Tenor Dance in the oldest boots I Bass is added at section 2; own High Sop at section 3; 2nd Bass at section 4 and all To the rhythm of Tom sing last chorus 5 Paine's bones

16 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 171 Us workers haven't got a chance, Unless we We've sung a thousand organise 3. Which side songs of peace, are you, Which side are you We've sung a thousand We fought a million battles, songs of peace, To defend our hard won and we will sing ten rights thousand more, We're going to have to fight for how can we be silent, again, And I ask you here when the guns still roar [tonight]

Which side are you on 4. Which side are you, Which side are you [all parts joining in one by one for intro] It's time for a decision, And you really have to choose 1. Which side are you, Defend the workers' Which side are you struggle, Or the next in line Come all of you good is you people, You women and you men Siya Hamba - Once more our backs are We are Singing in the Name of Peace to the wall, we're being Siya hamba me ni loko lo, attacked again Siya hamba me ni loko lo (x2) 2. Which side are you, Siya hamba hamba, siya Which side are you hamba, hamba Don't scab for the bosses, Siya hamba me ni loko lo Don't listen to their lies, (x2)

17 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 181 We are singing in name of peace Sop We are singing in name of Singaba hamba yo thina peace (x2) kul lom hlaba ke pha sin e We are singing.singing, we kha ya, e Zul wi ni are singing singing Singaba hamba yo thina we are singing in the name kul lom hlaba ke pha sin e of peace (x2) kha ya, e Zul wi Si thi, sit thi, sit thi, ha le lu ya, ha justice, freedom, voting, le lu ya, ha le lu ya marching, etc.

Singaba hamba yo thina Sequence: Bass: bars 1-4 x 2 Bass + Tenor: bars 1-4 x 2 Bass + Tenor + Alto: bars 1-4 x 2 Everyone: whole song x 2

Singaba hamba yo thina kul lom hlaba ke pha sin e kha ya, e Zul wi ni Singaba hamba yo thina kul lom hlaba ke pha sin e kha ya, e Zul wi ni ha le lu ya, ha le lu ya, ha le lu ya ha le lu ya, ha le lu ya, ha le lu ya

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Peace event in Bonn Square, Sun. 15th Bringing Peace/Salaam May Sop, alto, tenor 1. Bringing peace is on our Aint Gonna Study War shoulders x3, on everyone. repeat line twice soprano and alto [Salaam for us and for all of lay down your sword and the world, salaam, salaam], shield x2 lay your weapons down lay down your guns 2. Arabic - Wazheebah lay- by the river side nahneh nah zheeb x3, ah salaam bass repeat line twice war war no more [Salaam, leh-nah wa ley war war no more kul-ah ah lam, salaam, lay down your guns salaam], x2 lay down your guns by the river side 3. Hebrew - Od ya vo shalom a-lay-nu x3, vey al- tenor ku-lam. aint gonna study war-ar repeat line twice aint gonna study war [Salaam a-lay-nu vey al- lay down your gu-uns kol-ha-o-lam, shalom, by the river side salaam], x2

19 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 201 Bringing peace, bringing peace, on every one repeat line twice Salaam for us and for all of the world, salaam, salaam, x2

Wazheeb al-lah, wazheeb al-lah, ah salaam repeat line twice Salaam, leh-nah wa ley kul-ah ah lam, salaam, salaam, x2

Od ya vo Od ya vo, vey al- ku-lam. repeat line twice Salaam a-lay-nu vey al-kol- ha-o-lam, shalom, salaam, x2

20 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 211 The poor ones get thrown in prison while warden Foolish Notion 'what's his name' Holly Near is feeling justified, but when will he be tried for never Chorus asking. Why do we kill people who optional are killing people 3. Blair, Bush and new war- to show that killing people mongers, the problems is wrong, stay the same W hat a foolish notion that Devout ones become war is called devotion, jihadis, while politicians When the greatest warriors spread the blame are the ones who stand for all are self-justified, and peace. honour satisfied but will they ask 1. War toys are growing themselves: stronger, the problems stay the same. The young ones join the army while general 'what's his name' is feeling full of pride that the army will provide but does he ask himself

Chorus: 2. Death row is growing longer, the problems stay the same,

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Lay down your sword see Aint gonna study war

We are not just against the fighting, Sue Gilmurray We are not just against the fighting, we are for peace x2 We are for peace, we are for peace. We are not just against the fighting, we are for peace

We are not just against the killing, we are for peace x2 We are for peace, we are for peace. We are not just against the killing, we are for peace

We are not just a tribe or nation, we are one world x2 We are one world, We are one world. We are not just a tribe or nation, we are one world.

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Where have all the Men: flowers gone Where have all the Pete Seeger 1955 husbands gone, long time passing? All: Where have all the Where have all the flowers husbands gone, long time gone, long time passing? ago? Where have all the flowers Where have all the gone, long time ago? husbands gone? Where have all the flowers Gone for soldiers everyone gone? When will they ever learn? Girls have picked them When will they ever learn? every one When will they ever learn? Women: When will they ever learn? Where have all the soldiers gone, long time passing? Women: Where have all the soldiers Where have all the young gone, long time ago? girls gone, long time Where have all the soldiers passing? gone? Where have all the young Gone to graveyards, girls gone, long time ago? everyone. Where have all the young When will they ever learn? girls gone? When will they ever learn? Gone for husbands everyone. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

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All: Where have all the graveyards gone, long time passing? Where have all the graveyards gone, long time ago? Where have all the graveyards gone? Gone to flowers, everyone. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

24 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 251 But doing it that way Street Choir Festival, it would no longer have Leicester, 24th to 26th June been a bird. x2 2016 And I really loved that bird. Suggestions for songs: (all And I really loved that bird. songs are on the website) La la la ra la… Txoria Txori or Hegoak (Basque) We're all in this together - Capt A Drummond, N. Newitt, Hegoak ebaki banizkion arr. J. Bursall neria izango zen, ez zuen alde egingo. 1. The poor must pay the bankers, while the rich get Baina honela off scot-free ez zen gehiago txoria Its what you should izango. remember when you pay your VAT Eta nik txoria nuen maite. 'Cause we're ail in this Eta nik txoria nuen maite. together, with the bosses and billionaires La la la ra la… Yes, we're all in this together, 'cept we pay the If I had just clipped its lion's share. wings it would then have 2. The poor must pay the belonged to me, bankers, while the rich get it would never have flown off scot-free away. x2

25 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 261 Yes, that's the real No, we all must work meaning of this 'Big together for the common Society1 good of all, 'Cause we're ail in this Yes, we all must work together, with the cabinet together 'gainst the super- millionaires rich in Whitehall, Yes, we're all in this together, but we pay the Coda lion's share. 'Cause we're all in this together 'gainst the cabinet 3. I tell you we're millionaires, regressing back to those Yes, we'll fight them all days of old, together, so they pay the When the poor and the lion's share. disabled were left out in the cold, But "We're all in this together", yes, that is what they boast, But they always seem to scapegoat those who need the help the most.

4. We don't need competition within the National Health, It's simply part of Tory plans to privatise by stealth,

26 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 271 When the aeroplanes are gone Transition Town Melody I’ll stop singing you this song 1. We’ll dig the soil and Take the train, take the plant our seeds bus, We’ll dig the soil and plant Ride your bike our seeds (Tune: I’m Gonna Sing) We wanna eat a local diet We’ll dig the soil and plant our seeds Easy Money (Tune : Oh When the 1. The way I get my easy Saints) money, is when employment rules are light. 2. Windmills and solar The rules are light power [I open and I close the Coming forth to power my factories down without a home thought for workers rights] Windmills and solar power x2 Coming forth to power my home 2. I opened workshops for (Tune: Swing Low Sweet the children, in the far East Chariot) and other lands, in other lands. 3. Take the train, train, train [Their little hands can sew Take the bus, bus, bus, the shoes up much Take the train, take the cheaper than their parents bus, can]. x2 Ride your bike

27 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 281 3. The night time I employ the women, their chance to earn a few more pence, a few more pence [That way they take care of their children, good family values and business sense.] x2

4. Today I'm a bus'ness consultant, I tell banks if their firms should shut, if they should shut. [Of course it breaks my heart to close them down, but that's the way I get my cut] x2

5. Next job is power house the North then there is the west and south and east, then there's the east [Each time I close a fact'ry down there is always a few million for me] x2

28 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 291 Soon it’s the end, forget what's been Craonne The end of this war obscene 1. When one weeks rest Its at Craonne, on the ends, to the trenches we’re plateau sent, Our lives we must let go To start all over again We, the condemned, pay We soon find they are in a the price stew We are the sacrifice Without us they've not got a clue. 2. One week in the trench, Once more to the war, One week of distress once more life's a bore , We cling to the hope we The guns never-ending possess roar. That this night we’ll get And with hearts like lead, relieved our sadness unsaid That tonight we get Out of our civvies we tread. reprieved Theres no trumpet call, or So soft in the night, such drum roll. peace and such quiet Instead we go over the top, A shadow moves into our just lowering our head sight It moves at snails pace. Chorus Our officers face Farewell to love, farewell to He's coming to take our life place Farewell to girls sweet In shadows rain falls, and smile out in the gloom

29 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 301 The Tommies go out to And then its your turn, look for their tomb Rich slobs to go Chorus on the plateau instead ‘Cos if your keen on this 3. Its shameful to see in war streets of the city Pay for it with your head Rich folk making merry If for them life seems divine This was sung by the first world Then, as for us, it is not so war soldiers on the front at fine l'Aisne where the plain of Craonne is. It was sung after Rather than lay low, these the offensive of Nivelle shirkers should go (200,000 dead in 2 months) and Up there right up to the the mutinies of April 1917 (3500 front condemned with 500 executed). Defending their haul, cos' The army offered a bounty for we’ve got sod all anyone identifying the authors of the song. The tune is a We only know how to fall romantic melody of Charles Our comrades in arms Sablon, "Bonsoir m'amour" very They’re buried right here popular before the war. Defending the wealth of those rich folk there

Final Chorus Those with the cash, they will come back It is for them we’re dying But change is ahead, cos’ soldiers have said That they will all soon be striking

30 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 311 to overthrow the old world of authority. Revolt And with fraternal hearts Sébastien Faure We'll realize the ideal of liberty. 1. We are downtrodden victims all 2. We workers and we of all the wars, farmers all wars now and wars back in who labour in the factory or the past in the fields Exploited by tyrants and We are from a very young made age to serve the rich and made to do work that is wealthy gov'ning class hard and that kills. But we will not accept Yet it is we grow the food again and we who make all of the a system that gave our stuff to sell parents pain Yet we live destitute and We want to free ourselves poor from that which keeps us in poverty our lives a bound waking hell in our own misery. 3. The state taxes us freely Chorus: The Church and all Parliament. to pay the police, judges, Judges and Magistrates army and the crown and Militarism If we protest too much then Bosses and Managers. they Let us all get rid of Without a second thought capitalism. just shoot us down. Our need is urgent now 31 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 321 The names of those who Before becoming a free- have the power thinker, Faure was a seminarist. They move around, they He engaged in politics as a socialist be fore turning to call it politics anarchism in 1888. But those who get to make the laws In 1918, he was imprisoned for are always part of the very organizing an illegal meeting. same old clique

4. We're told we must protect the banks, The companies and leaders of our industry And so we must go fight and die To give protection to our country But we, have nothing to protect We have nothing and we all hate a war,

Sébastien Faure (born January 6, 1858 in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France; died July 14, 1942 in Royan, Charente-Maritime, France) was a French anarchist,[1] freethought and secularist activist and a principal proponent of synthesis anarchism.[2][3]

32 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 331 Always summer time, the sun in its prime When A Soldier Goes Off The sky looks down on the To War ones Francis Lemarque marching off to die stepping out in (or of) time 1. Gun wreathed in roses, drum beating he goes 3. Of Men there’s never twenty years old, a lovers quite enough, heart that glows and the war, and the war a serjeant there to keep Cares not for soldiers vows him on his toes of love, his rucksack bouncing out it likes drum-beats strong the beat he knows and tough

2. When a soldier goes off 4. When a soldier goes off to war he has to war he has a generals baton in his some flowers and some army bags songs he can recall When a soldier comes When a soldier comes back from war he has back from war he has some dirty laundry in his [simply a lot of luck and bag and rags that is all] x2 simply a lot of luck and that is all To go, die a little more, in the war, in the war It's just a funny little game, a game that lovers all abhor But when it is time to leave

33 3804/04/2018,3:47 PM 341 Others have found it by Text to accompany 'We association with are all under the international movements; stars' - we believe in the solidarity of the human race, and we Extracts from the cannot betray the ties of Manifesto of the No- brotherhood which bind us Conscription to one another through the Fellowship, nations of the world. September 1915 All of us, however we may Whatever the purpose to have come to this be achieved by war, conviction, believe in the however high the ideals for value and sacredness of which belligerent nations human personality, and are may struggle, for us 'thou prepared to sacrifice as shalt not kill' means what it much in the cause of the says. world's peace as our fellows are sacrificing in the We have been brought to cause of the nation's war. this standpoint by many ways. Some of us have reached it through the Christian faith in which we have been reared, and to the interpretation of which we plead the right to stand loyal.