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Lyrics for Commonwealth Of Toil by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Commonwealth Of Toil | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 241 | | | | Lyrics: | COMMONWEALTH OF TOIL
(Ralph Chaplin)
In the gloom of mighty cities
'Mid the
roar of whirling wheels
We are toiling on like chattel slaves of old
And our masters hope
to keep us
Ever thus beneath their heels
And to coin our very lifeblood into
gold
But we have a glowing dream
Of how fair the world would seem
When
each man can live his life secure and free
When the earth is owned by Labor
And
there's joy and peace for all
In the Commonwealth of Toil that is to be
They
would keep us cowed and beaten
Cringing meekly at their feet
They would stand between each
worker and his bread
Shall we yield our lives up to them
For the bitter crust we
eat?
Shall we only hope for heaven when we're dead?
They have laid our lives out for
us
To the utter end of time
Shall we stagger on beneath their heavy load?
Shall we
let them live forever
In their gilded halls of crime
With our children doomed to toil
beneath their goad?
When our cause is all triumphant
And we claim our Mother
Earth
And the nightmare of the present fades away
We shall live with Love and
Laughter
We, who now are little worth
And we'll not regret the price we have to
pay
@work @IWW
tune: Darling Nellie Gray
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