A song by Woody Guthrie recorded by myself, with some amended lyrics in the second verse and an original arrangement.

Antifascista siempre, you fascists bound to lose! (A)

All You Fascists Bound To Lose

A rewrite I did of the well known socialist song 'The Red Flag' for anarchists.

Lyrics:

The workers' flag is red and black
It bears the scars of fascist flak
And though the State's police may try
We'll never let them stop it fly

So raise our blackened standard high
Beneath its folds we stand and fight
Though traitors flinch and tyrants sneer
We'll keep the Black Flag flying here

From Mexico to Northern Spain
From Ireland to the black Ukraine
We'll smash all borders on this earth
The Red & Black across the world

So raise our blackened standard high
Beneath its folds we stand and fight
Though traitors flinch and tyrants sneer
We'll keep the Black Flag flying here

We will not bow to State or King
Nothing will silence freedom's ring
All authority we will resist
We will stand and fight with our raised fists

So raise our blackened standard high
Beneath its folds we stand and fight
Though traitors flinch and tyrants sneer
We'll keep the Black Flag flying here

It will not come through parliament
It will not come through argument
We must take it for ourselves
Not let others take the helm

So raise our blackened standard high
Beneath its folds we stand and fight
Though traitors flinch and tyrants sneer
We'll keep the Black Flag flying here

Never again will we submit
To slavery and their remit
Workers will up and down their tools
Into the streets to end their rule

So raise our blackened standard high
Beneath its folds we stand and fight
Though traitors flinch and tyrants sneer
We'll keep the Black Flag flying here

We march to take our power back
United 'neath the Red & Black
Well smash the boss and smash the state
And reunite the human race

So raise our blackened standard high
Beneath its folds we stand and fight
Though traitors flinch and tyrants sneer
We'll keep the Black Flag flying here

The Black Flag

An old Irish anti-war song first recorded in Limerick in 1850

This is a cover of the Paul Brady/Bob Dylan version of the song



Arthur McBride (Paul's Version)

Arthur McBride (Andy's Version)

An tIdirnáisiúnta, "The Internationale" as Gaeilge. 

Focail:

Éirígí, a lucht ocrais, as bhur gcodladh!
Éirígí, a dhaoraithe na gainne!
Mar anois tá an réabhlóid ag tonnadh,
Is tá deireadh le ré na cainte!
Amach le bhur bpisreoga uile,
A sclábhaithe, éirígí! éirígí!
Athróm anois na sean-drochídí,
’S téanam i mbaol ar thóir na bua!

Anois, a chairde, tagaigí uile,
Tá an cogadh deiridh ar siúl!
Aontaíonn an tIdirnáisiúnta
An cine daonna go léir!
Anois, a chairde, tagaigí uile,
Tá an cogadh deiridh ar siúl!
Aontaíonn an tIdirnáisiúnta
An cine daonna go léir!

Nil trust ar bith againn i dtaoisigh
Na súil le slanaitheoir o neamh
's muid ag braith ar ar lamha féinig
Chun saol núa a bhaint amach!
Os muid a chruthaíos gach saibhreas,
Os muid a throideas gach cath
Aontaithe le chéile gan aon aighneas
Is againn a bheas an rath.

Anois, a chairde, tagaigí uile,
Tá an cogadh deiridh ar siúl!
Aontaíonn an tIdirnáisiúnta
An cine daonna go léir!
Anois, a chairde, tagaigí uile,
Tá an cogadh deiridh ar siúl!
Aontaíonn an tIdirnáisiúnta
An cine daonna go léir!"


An t-Idirnáisiúnta (The Internationale)

A cover of the 'Moving On Song' by Ewan McColl

Capo 6 DADGAD etc.

Moving On Song (Version 2)

A cover of the 'Moving On Song' by Ewan McColl

Moving On Song

Shoegaze WIP

A cover of a pretty well-known song by the not particularly well-known Leon Rosselson. This song has been recorded by numerous artists including Dick Gaughan, Billy Bragg and Canadian punk band The Rebel Spell. 

Its a song about the Diggers, a group of proto-communists in the 17th Century who resisted land enclosure by squatting common land in England, before being brutally crushed by the authorities. The song paints a beautiful vision of a world where 'All things in common, all people one' and the idea of the Earth as 'a common treasury for all'. A vision no anarchist could disagree with. 

In 1649
To St. George’s Hill,
A ragged band they called the Diggers
Came to show the people’s will
They defied the landlords
They defied the laws
They were the dispossessed reclaiming what was theirs

We come in peace they said
To dig and sow
We come to work the lands in common
And to make the waste ground grow
This earth divided
We will make whole
So it will be
A common treasury for all

The sin of property
We do disdain
No man has any right to buy and sell
The earth for private gain
By theft and murder
They took the land
Now everywhere the walls
Spring up at their command

They make the laws
To chain us well
The clergy dazzle us with heaven
Or they damn us into hell
We will not worship
The God they serve
The God of greed who feed the rich
While poor folk starve

We work we eat together
We need no swords
We will not bow to the masters
Or pay rent to the lords
Still we are free
Though we are poor
You Diggers all stand up for glory
Stand up now

From the men of property
The orders came
They sent the hired men and troopers
To wipe out the Diggers’ claim
Tear down their cottages
Destroy their corn
They were dispersed
But still the vision lingers on

You poor take courage
You rich take care
This earth was made a common treasury
For everyone to share
All things in common
All people one
We come in peace
The orders came to cut them down




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