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I.W.W. Songs
To Fan the Flames of Discontent
Nineteenth Edition, 1923
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THE WORKERS OF THE WORLLD ARE NOW AWAKING
- By Richard Brazier
(Tune: "The Shade of the Old Apple Tree")
The Workers of the World are now awaking;
The earth is shaking with their mighty tread.
The master class in great fear now are quaking,
The sword of Damocles hangs o'er their head.
The toilers in one union are uniting,
To overthrow their cruel master's reign.
In One Big Union now they all are fighting,
The product of their labor to retain.
** Chorus
It's a union for true Liberty
It's a union for you and for me;
It's the workers' own choice,
It's for girls and for boys,
Who want freedom from wage slavery;
And we march with a Red Flag ahead,
'Cause the blood of all nations is red‐
Come on and join in the fray,
Come on and join us today,
We are fighting for Freedom and Bread
The master's class in fear have kept us shaking,
For long in bondage they held us fast;
But the fight the Industrial workers are now making
Will make our chains a relic of the past.
Industrial unionism now is calling,
The toilers of the world they hear its cry;
In line with the Industrial Workers they are falling,
Bu their principles to stand or fall and die.
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