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05 Aug 09 - 09:15 AM (#2694095) Subject: Lyr Add: STAND TALL (Mike Williss) From: GUEST,mark gregory A Song by Mike Williss©2009 Mike Williss Lyrics written by Mike Williss, performed by Peter Hicks and engineered by Geoff Francis in Southern Tasmania. see http://unionsong.com/u630.html Come gather round and listen To the thunder rolling in, 'Cos the rich are trying to break us And we're not gonna let them win. Well they tried it on the wharfies With scabs and thugs and lost, So how to break the building sites Where the workers won't be bossed? "We own the law, we own the courts And that's the key to their defeat: We'll give the workers six months jail For every time they meet!" The workers met on safety And Ark Tribe led the way, So Gillard's thugs decided That he would have to pay. "If your name it is Ark Tribe Come to our interrogation – You'll have to dob your mates in: That's the way we run this nation!" "Oh my name it is Ark Tribe And I ain't gonna talk to you. My freedom flies with the Southern Cross And there's nothing you can do." "If there's anything that I've done wrong I'll take your jail, that's fine! But killing fifty men a year Is the bosses' crime, not mine!" "As for your Liberal and your Labor, To me they look the same With Howard's rotten laws served up In Julia Gillard's name." "Well, I'd a-ridden with Ned Kelly I'd a fought with bold Ben Hall, 'Cos it was wild colonial boys like these Who taught us to stand tall." Well, if Ark Tribe's put in prison By their "tough cop on the beat", The wild colonial boys and girls Must get out in the street. And we must ride like Edward Kelly, We must fight like bold Ben Hall, 'Cos it was wild colonial boys like these Who taught us to stand tall! |