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 * Workers of the world, awaken!
 * Break your chains, demand your rights;

All the wealth you make is taken
 * By exploiting parasites.

Shall you kneel in deep submission
 * From your cradles to your graves?

Is the height of your ambition
 * To be good and willing slaves?

Arise, ye prisoners of starvation! Fight for your own emancipation; Arise, ye slaves of every nation!
 * In One Union grand.

Our little ones for bread are crying, And millions are from hunger dying; The means the end is justifying,
 * 'Tis the final stand.

If the workers take a notion,
 * They can stop all speeding trains;

Every ship upon the ocean
 * They can tie with mighty chains,

Every wheel in the creation,
 * Every mine and every mill,

Fleets and armies of the nation
 * Will at their command stand still.

Join the Union, fellow-workers,
 * Men and women, side by side;

We will crush the greedy shirkers
 * Like a sweeping, surging tide;

For united we are standing,
 * But divided we will fall;

Let this be our understanding—
 * "All for one and one for all."

Workers of the world, awaken!
 * Rise in all your splendid might,

Take a wealth that you are making.
 * It belongs to you by right;

