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 WORKERS OF THE WORLD, AWAKEN!

By Joe Hill 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?

CHORUS: 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 end the means 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;



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