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Thread #37334   Message #520542
Posted By: Gareth
03-Aug-01 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Green Grow the Rushes - pagan version
Subject: Lyr Add: RED FLY THE BANNERS OH !
A version of "Green Grow the Rushes Oh!, sung in leftist circles in London in the 70's. Older than that though, my mother can recall singing something similar in her student days in 1946 – 49. (UCW – Cardiff and Bath teacher Training College)

RED FLY THE BANNERS OH !

I'll sing you one Oh!
Red fly the banners Oh !
What is your One Oh !
One is workers unity ,
And ever more will be so !

Two, Two, the workers hands,
Working for his living Oh !

Three, Three, the rights of man,

Four, for the four great leaders
( perm any four of the following according to dialectical tendency
MARX, LENIN, STALIN, MAO, TROTSKY, BERIA, UNCLE HO, NYE, KROPONTKIN, KEIR HARDY, ( well you can imagine the rest )

Five for the Years of the Five-year plan,

Six for the Tolpuddle martyrs,

Seven for the Stars on Connolly's Flag,

Eight for the Eighth Red Army,

Nine for the days of the General Strike,

Ten for the days that shook the world,

Eleven for the Moscow Dynamo's

And that's the best that I can do !

Gareth