Union Songs

Call To Arms

A song by Richard Mills ©Richard Mills 2000
Tune: Your Daughters and Your Sons

I used to dream of days of Peace
When all the world is one
And humans can walk hand in hand
For the Age of Wrath is done

But the peace that once lived in my heart
Has turned to burning rage
For the Tyrant stalks the earth again
Despoiling all the age

Chorus:
And it's time to man the barriers
It's time to take a stand
Our freedom has been stole away
And the Tyrant rules the land
Oh, the Tyrant rules the land
The Tyrant rules the land
Our freedom has been stole away
And the Tyrant rules the land

His weapon is the TV screen
His tool's the contract wage
Where once the unions held him fast
He's chained them in a cage

He wields the media like a whip
To cow the working man
His economic slavery
Has paralysed the land

Chorus

His unemployment steals our voice
His dole binds us in chains
And rich men fatten at the trough
Of all our broken dreams

Today it's Johnny Howard's face
He wears to wring us dry
But a million more stand by his side
To bolster up the lie

Chorus

Our leaders all have lost the way
Their voices sound no call
We face the future dispossessed
Our backs against the wall

We need to come together now
We need find our voice
We need to beat the Tyrant down
We have no other choice

Oh, we have no other choice
We have no other choice
We need to beat the Tyrant down
We have no other choice

Chorus

Notes
Thanks to Richard Mills for permission to add this song to the Union Songs web site.



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