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In a letter to every president, congressman, career politician, |
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Scrawled in spite across the envelope |
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With all of our conviction. |
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In only took a few hours for his peers |
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To find him guilty in a trial too fair, |
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A wobblie, immigrant worker has no place amongst the living. |
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"My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce." |
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Murdered by the capitalist, |
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1915 be careful of what you wish. |
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Who is wrong and who is righteous? |
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What was stolen from us we will replace, |
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Off with the head on the body we feast, |
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Who is wrong and who is righteous, |
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Will never be our own decision. |
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He yelled fire to the squad with guns, they stopped his heart from beating. |
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Every word he wrote, he spoke, he sung, we are still singing:remember pingshan |
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"My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce, |
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And let the breezes blow my dust to where some flowers grow. |
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Perhaps some fading flower then would come to life and bloom again". |
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If the workers take a notion, |
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They can stop all speeding trains, |
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Every ship upon the oceans |
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They can tie with mighty chains |
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Every wheel in the creation, |
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Every mine and every mill. |
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Fleets and armies of all nations |
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Will at our command stand still. |
