Workers Of The World Awaken chords by Joe Hill

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:
    D MajorD
Workers of the world, awaken!
      A augmentedA          G+G
Break your chains, demand your rights.
    D MajorD
All the wealth you make is taken
   E MajorE
By exploiting parasites.
     D MajorD
Shall you kneel in deep submission
     A augmentedA        G+G
From your cradles to your graves?
    D MajorD
Is the height of your ambition
   C majorC    G+G    C majorC
To be good and willing slaves?

Chorus:
 FF    G7G7      C majorC   A minorAm
Arise, ye prisoners of starva-tion!
FF       G7G7  D MajorD
Fight for your own emancipation;
 FF    G7G7     C majorC    A minorAm
Arise, ye slaves of ev'ry na-tion.
E MajorE   BB   C majorC
In One Union grand.
   G7G7       C majorC
Our little ones for bread are crying
   G7G7        C majorC
And millions are from hunger dying;
  G7G7        C majorC   FF
The end the means is justi-fying,
     D MajorD   C majorC
'Tis the final stand.


Verse 2:
    D MajorD
If the workers take a notion
     A augmentedA         G+G
They can stop all speeding trains;
   D MajorD
Every ship upon the ocean
     A augmentedA        G+G
They can tie with mighty chains.
   D MajorD
Every wheel in the creation,
   A augmentedA       G+G
Every mine and every mill
      D MajorD
Fleets and armies of the nation,
    C majorC     G+G     C majorC
Will at their com-mand stand still.

Chorus:
 FF    G7G7      C majorC   A minorAm
Arise, ye prisoners of starva-tion!
FF       G7G7  D MajorD
Fight for your own emancipation;
 FF    G7G7     C majorC    A minorAm
Arise, ye slaves of ev'ry na-tion.
E MajorE   BB   C majorC
In One Union grand.
   G7G7       C majorC
Our little ones for bread are crying
   G7G7        C majorC
And millions are from hunger dying;
  G7G7        C majorC   FF
The end the means is justi-fying,
     D MajorD   C majorC
'Tis the final stand.


Verse 3:
     D MajorD
Join the union, fellow workers
    A augmentedA       G+G
Men and women, side by side;
    D MajorD
We will crush the greedy shirkers
    A augmentedA         G+G
Like a sweeping; surging tide;
   D MajorD
For u-nited we are standing,
    A augmentedA       G+G
But di-vided we will fall;
     D MajorD
Let this be our understanding--
     C majorC    G+G    C majorC
"All for one and one for all."


Chorus:
 FF    G7G7      C majorC   A minorAm
Arise, ye prisoners of starva-tion!
FF       G7G7  D MajorD
Fight for your own emancipation;
 FF    G7G7     C majorC    A minorAm
Arise, ye slaves of ev'ry na-tion.
E MajorE   BB   C majorC
In One Union grand.
   G7G7       C majorC
Our little ones for bread are crying
   G7G7        C majorC
And millions are from hunger dying;
  G7G7        C majorC   FF
The end the means is justi-fying,
     D MajorD   C majorC
'Tis the final stand.


Verse 4:
    D MajorD
Workers of the world, awaken!
    A augmentedA         G+G
Rise in all your splendid might;
     D MajorD
Take the wealth that you are making,
   A augmentedA        G+G
It be-longs to you by right.
    D MajorD
No one will for bread be crying,
      A augmentedA         G+G
We'll have freedom, love, and health.
     D MajorD
When the grand red flag is flying
    C majorC    G+G   C majorC
In the Workers' Common-wealth.


Chorus:
 FF    G7G7      C majorC   A minorAm
Arise, ye prisoners of starva-tion!
FF       G7G7  D MajorD
Fight for your own emancipation;
 FF    G7G7     C majorC    A minorAm
Arise, ye slaves of ev'ry na-tion.
E MajorE   BB   C majorC
In One Union grand.
   G7G7       C majorC
Our little ones for bread are crying
   G7G7        C majorC
And millions are from hunger dying;
  G7G7        C majorC   FF
The end the means is justi-fying,
     D MajorD   C majorC