The Ghosts Of Cable Street-Men They Couldn't Hang

[ti:The Ghosts Of Cable Street] [ar:Men They Couldn't Hang] [al:The Shooting] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ghosts Of Cable Street - Men They Couldn't Hang [00:24.33]England 1936 [00:27.90]The grip of the Sabbath day [00:31.01] [00:31.71]In London town the only sound [00:35.54]Is a whisper in an alleyway [00:38.77] [00:39.64]Men put on their gloves and boots [00:43.38]Have a smoke before they go [00:46.68] [00:47.19]From the west there is a warning of [00:51.38]A wind about to blow [00:54.68] [00:55.20]Like Caesar marching to the East [00:58.84]Marches Mosley with his men [01:01.49] [01:02.42]Dressed in their clothes of deepest black [01:05.80]Like a gathering hurricane [01:08.43] [01:09.54]This is the British Union [01:12.92]With its flag of black and red [01:15.56] [01:16.15]A flag that casts a shadow in [01:19.97]Berlin and in Madrid [01:22.55] [01:23.35]So listen to the sound of marching feet [01:27.62] [01:30.16]And the voices of the ghosts of Cable Street [01:34.73] [01:37.47]Fists and stones and batons and the gun [01:41.49] [01:44.46]With courage we shall beat those blackshirts down [01:48.96] [01:51.43]So mile by mile they come on down [01:54.84]To a place called Cable Street [01:57.65] [01:58.60]And other men are waiting there [02:02.02]Preparations are complete [02:04.52] [02:05.95]Mosley comes so close [02:07.89]They now can see his outstretched arm [02:11.67] [02:12.72]A hand raised up that way [02:14.95]Never took the future in its palm [02:18.76] [02:19.63]So listen to the sound of marching feet [02:23.93] [02:26.31]And the voices of the ghosts of Cable Street [02:30.99] [02:33.87]Fists and stones and batons and the gun [02:37.88] [02:40.82]With courage we shall beat those blackshirts down [02:45.12] [02:57.05]The battle broke as the fists and the batons fell [03:01.39] [03:03.43]Through the barricades came the sound of the wounded yells [03:08.11] [03:10.20]Jack Spot burst through with a chair leg made of lead [03:15.20] [03:16.91]Brought down a crashing blow on Mosley's head [03:21.31] [03:22.42]History generations have to fight [03:26.51] [03:27.65]And those who crave for mastery [03:30.86]Must be faced down on sight [03:33.69] [03:34.51]And if that means by words by fists [03:37.74]By stones or by the gun [03:40.39] [03:41.35]Remember those who stood up for [03:44.82]Their daughters and their sons [03:47.50] [03:48.28]So listen to the sound of marching feet [03:52.50] [03:55.02]And the voices of the ghosts of Cable Street [03:59.51] [04:02.36]Fists and stones and batons and the gun [04:06.31] [04:09.20]With courage we shall beat those blackshirts down [04:13.43]Listen to the sound of marching feet [04:17.19] [04:19.78]And the voices of the ghosts of Cable Street [04:24.09] [04:27.02]Fists and stones and batons and the gun [04:30.86] [04:33.65]With courage we shall beat those blackshirts down