Workers Of The World Awaken chords by Joe Hill

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

Chorus:
 F        G7           C      Am
Arise, ye prisoners of starva-tion!
F              G7   D
Fight for your own emancipation;
  F       G7         C       Am
Arise, ye slaves of ev'ry na-tion.
E      B     C
In One Union grand.
     G7             C
Our little ones for bread are crying
     G7               C
And millions are from hunger dying;
    G7               C     F
The end the means is justi-fying,
         D     C
'Tis the final stand.


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


Chorus:
 F        G7           C      Am
Arise, ye prisoners of starva-tion!
F              G7   D
Fight for your own emancipation;
  F       G7         C       Am
Arise, ye slaves of ev'ry na-tion.
E      B     C
In One Union grand.
     G7             C
Our little ones for bread are crying
     G7               C
And millions are from hunger dying;
    G7               C     F
The end the means is justi-fying,
         D     C
'Tis the final stand.


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


Chorus:
 F        G7           C      Am
Arise, ye prisoners of starva-tion!
F              G7   D
Fight for your own emancipation;
  F       G7         C       Am
Arise, ye slaves of ev'ry na-tion.
E      B     C
In One Union grand.
     G7             C
Our little ones for bread are crying
     G7               C
And millions are from hunger dying;
    G7               C     F
The end the means is justi-fying,
         D     C
'Tis the final stand.


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


Chorus:
 F        G7           C      Am
Arise, ye prisoners of starva-tion!
F              G7   D
Fight for your own emancipation;
  F       G7         C       Am
Arise, ye slaves of ev'ry na-tion.
E      B     C
In One Union grand.
     G7             C
Our little ones for bread are crying
     G7               C
And millions are from hunger dying;
    G7               C     F
The end the means is justi-fying,
         D     C