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VERSE
 
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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 trail too fair, 
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A wobblie, immigrant worker has no place among 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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November 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. 
 
 
INTRO X4 
 
 
VERSE
  
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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: 
 
 
 
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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. 
 
 
BRIDGE
 
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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 ocean. 
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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   (pause)       still.