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Billy Bragg – The Internationale lyrics
Stand up, all victims of oppression
For the tyrants fear your might

Don't cling so hard to your possessions
For you have nothing, if you have no rights

Let racist ignorance be ended
For respect makes the empires fall
Freedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and all

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So come brothers and sisters
For the struggle carries on

The internationale
Unites the world in song

So comrades come rally
For this is the time and place

The international ideal
Unites the human race

Let no one build walls to divide us
Walls of hatred nor walls of stone
Come greet the dawn and stand beside us
We'll live together or we'll die alone
In our world poisoned by exploitation
Those who have taken, now they must give
And end the vanity of nations
We've but one earth on which to live

And so begins the final drama
In the streets and in the fields
We stand unbowed before their armour
We defy their guns and shields
When we fight, provoked by their aggression
Let us be inspired by like and love
For though they offer us concessions
Change will not come from above

Words: billy bragg music: pierre degeyter
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Songwriters: EUGENE EDME POTTIER, PETRUS CHRISTIANUS DE GEYTER, STEPHEN WILLIAM BRAGG
The Internationale lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

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