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We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years

from Night of the Living Reds by Workers' United Front

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We have fed you all for a thousand years
And you hail us still unfed
Though there's never a dollar of all your wealth
But marks the workers dead

We have yielded our best to give you rest
And you lie on crimson wool
But if blood be the price of all your wealth
Then good god we have paid in full

There is never a mine blown skyward now
But we're buried alive for you
There's never a wreck drifts shoreward now
But we are its ghastly crew

Go reckon our dead by the forges red
And the factories where we spin
If blood be the price of your cursed wealth
Then good god we have paid it in

We have fed you all for a thousand years
For that was our doom, you know
From the days when you chained us in your fields
To the strike a week ago

You have taken our lives, and our husbands and wives
And we're told it's your legal share
But if blood be the price of your lawful wealth
Then good god we bought it fair.

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from Night of the Living Reds, released September 9, 2007
Written by Rudolph von Leibich and an Unknown Proletarian (1908).

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