LYR ADD: Workers' Song (w/ra)

Subject: Lyr Add: WORKERS' SONG (Ed Pickford) (w/ra)
From: Ezio
Date: 12 Sep 98 - 03:04 AM

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WORKERS' SONG

Ed Pickford

Come all of you workers
Who toil night and day
By hand and by brain
To earn your pay
Who for centuries long past
For no more than your bread
Have bled for your country
And counted your dead

In the factories and mills
In the shipyards and mines
We've often been told
To keep up with the times
For our skills are not needed
They've streamlined the job
And with slide-rule and stopwatch
Our pride they have robbed

And when the sky darkens
And the prospect is war
Who's given a gun
And the pushed to the fore
And expected to die
For the land of our birth
When we've never owned
One handful of earth?

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Sung by Dick Gaughan on «Handful of Earth» (1981)

(submitted by EB)

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I've collected most of the lyrics I've posted here during the past months.
These lyrics, along with the .RA audioclips, are available at
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Ezio