Oh me and my baby resist
We run the pavement for peace
Together we deliver The Leader
In all weather with hunger and tears.
His Daddy lies stretched on
The stained fields of Flanders
His brother, well God only knows!
So we’ll dodge the eyes in the shadow
As long as this red river flows.
Oh me and my baby resist
We run the pavement for peace
Together we deliver The Leader
In all weather with hunger and tears.
Mrs Pankhurst’s imperial stature
Has no sons to offer the pyre
’cause they'll murder us all if we help them
Fill up their heartless desire.
Oh me and my baby resist
We run the pavement for peace
Together we deliver The Leader
In all weather with hunger and tears.
Now we sing our song for Keir Hardie
His spirit leads us to call
To a world of sisters and brothers
With peace and justice for all.
Oh me and my baby resist.
We run the pavement for peace.
Together we deliver The Leader
In all weather with hunger and tears.
We run the pavement for peace
Together we deliver The Leader
In all weather with hunger and tears.
His Daddy lies stretched on
The stained fields of Flanders
His brother, well God only knows!
So we’ll dodge the eyes in the shadow
As long as this red river flows.
Oh me and my baby resist
We run the pavement for peace
Together we deliver The Leader
In all weather with hunger and tears.
Mrs Pankhurst’s imperial stature
Has no sons to offer the pyre
’cause they'll murder us all if we help them
Fill up their heartless desire.
Oh me and my baby resist
We run the pavement for peace
Together we deliver The Leader
In all weather with hunger and tears.
Now we sing our song for Keir Hardie
His spirit leads us to call
To a world of sisters and brothers
With peace and justice for all.
Oh me and my baby resist.
We run the pavement for peace.
Together we deliver The Leader
In all weather with hunger and tears.
Contributed by Bernart Bartleby - 2015/12/25 - 18:01
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Parole e musica di Dan Kennedy (non ho purtroppo notizie circa l’autore))
Una canzone scritta appositamente per The World Is My Country, progetto inglese nato per celebrare gli obiettori di coscienza della Grande Guerra.
Nel brano viene citata Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst, leader del movimento suffragista femminile britannico, che però fu anche un’ardente anti-comunista e anti-tedesca, tanto da dichiarare nel 1914 che la causa suffragista era sospesa per non intralciaree lo sforzo bellico...
James Keir Hardie, anche lui citato, fu invece un leader socialista, fondatore del Labour Party in Scozia. Al contrario della Pankhurst, Keir Hardie fu un fiero oppositore alla Grande Guerra, tanto da cercare di organizzare uno sciopero generale per mostrare la contrarietà dei lavoratori all’ennesima guerra voluta dai ricchi e dai potenti. Il suo sforzo non ebbe però successo, perchè all’epoca il pacifismo era del tutto minoritario. A guerra cominciata Keir Hardie continuò a tuonare il suo “no!” in tanti comizi, spesso subissati dalle urla e dai fischi degli interventisti. L’impegno profuso da Keir Hardie contro la guerra lo portò alla tomba nel 1915, restando egli colpito da alcuni gravi infarti.