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Thread #19019 Message #3540219
Posted By: Les in Chorlton
22-Jul-13 - 06:29 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Song of the Lower Classes
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Song of the Lower Classes
These are the words from Bob Davenport - Common Stone CD
Song of the other Ranks (Words e jones, b davenport,Tune pinched from prokoviev)
We plough and sow we're very, very low That we delve in the dirty clay Till we bless the plain with golden grain And the vale with the fragrant hay Our place we know we are so low Down at the landlord's feet We're not too low the bread to grow Too low the bread to eat
We're low we're low we're very, very low Yet from our fingers glide The silken flow and the robes that glow Round the limbs of the sons of pride And what we get and what we give We know and we know our share We're not too low the cloth to weave But too low the cloth to wear
We're low we're low as to war we go To fight some foreign country That was yesterday our greatest friend But today's our enemy God bless our boys the papers scream Praise them the churchmen cry When the war is won and home we come Who care's if we live or die?
We're low we're low 'till that happy day When we're called to a heaven on high When the freedom we never had in our lives Will be there on the day we die If you see no worth suffering hell on earth For the promise of a heaven above Why not join the fight that one day we might See a heaven down here below