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Message-ID: <199803061920.LAA27378@fraser.sfu.ca>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:20:03 -0800
Reply-To: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <LABOR-L@YorkU.CA>
Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <LABOR-L@YorkU.CA>
From: Sid Shniad <shniad@SFU.CA>
Subject: Bread and Roses
To: LABOR-L@YorkU.CA

Bread and Roses:
The rising of the women
be means the rising of the race

The complete words to Bread and Roses

Words by James Oppenheimer and music by Caroline Kohsleet, 6 March 1998

As we go marching, marching in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing: "Bread and roses! Bread and roses!"
 
As we go marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread but give us roses!
 
As we go marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread.
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.
Yes, it is bread we fight for - but we fight for roses, too!
 
As we go marching, marching, we bring the greater days.
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler - ten that toil where one reposes,
But a sharing of life's glories - Bread and roses! Bread and roses!

chords: C G - C / - G FG C / Am G F C / F C G C