Key: D major
Verse 1
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On the 4th of October 1936,
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was only a lad of 16
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But I stood beside men
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who were 3 score and 10
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And every age in between
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We were dockers and teachers,
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busmen, engineers
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and those with no jobs to do.
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We were wo men and children,
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equal in union,
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Atheists, Christians and Jews,
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and we had so much to lose.
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For with Hitler in Germany,
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Franco in Spain
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We knew what fascism meant
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So when Morsley came trouncing,
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To the east end of London we went
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For I'd met refugees who
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Germans, Italians and Jews
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And I knew their despair
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And I couldn't let them be abused
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We had so much to lose
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Now three thousand fascists,
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their uniforms
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Black had set out to march on that day,
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An d six thousand policemen
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intended to greet them
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our nerves they were steady,
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One hundred thousand in mass,
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And we sang, they shall not pass
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We sang, they shall not pass
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To stop the police breaking through
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And with swift hands
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we made strong bar ricades
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out of anything we could use
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And they came to charge us,
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but they couldn't barge us
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With as good as we got,
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we withstood the lot
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for we would not be moved,
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we would not be moved.
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And yes, there was violence
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and I saw things a lad shouldn't see.
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But I'll not regret the day I stood
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and London stood with me
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And when the news spread,
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the day had been won
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and Morsley was limping away
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There were shouts,
there were cheers,
there were songs,
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and I hear them all to this day.
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then we'd stand up again
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for as long as our legs could,
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and that when we were gone
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our daughters and sons
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would stand where we stood.
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Was the first time I'd heard
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two tiny words
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said by every woman and man.
Now I say them still,
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and I always will,
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No passer -on.
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