1915-Anti-Flag

[ti:1915] [ar:Anti-Flag] [al:The General Strike] [by:] [offset:0] [00:20.52]In a letter to every president congressman career politician [00:25.40]Scrawled in spite across the envelope [00:27.65]With all of our conviction [00:30.08]In only took a few hours for his peers [00:32.65]To find him guilty in a trail too fair [00:35.19]A wobblie immigrant worker has no place among the living [00:40.16]My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce [00:48.22]Murdered by the capitalist [00:50.23]November 1915 be careful of what you wish [00:53.16]Who is wrong and who is righteous [00:54.73] [00:57.74]What was stolen from us we will replace [01:00.43]Off with the head on the body we feast [01:02.99]Who is wrong and who is righteous [01:05.30]Will never be our own decision [01:19.61] [01:28.30]He yelled fire to the squad with guns they stopped his heart from beating [01:33.02]Every word he wrote he spoke he sung we are still singing: [01:38.03]“My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce [01:42.83]And let the breezes blow my dust to where some flowers grow [01:47.58]Perhaps some fading flower then would come to life and bloom again [01:52.71] [02:27.60]If the workers take a notion [02:30.34]They can stop all speeding trains [02:33.35]Every ship upon the ocean [02:36.14]They can tie with mighty chains [02:39.08]Every wheel in the creation [02:41.86]Every mine and every mill [02:44.78]Fleets and armies of all nations [02:47.28]Will at our command stand still