We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years chords by Utah Phillips

Chords with lyrics

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We have fed you all for a thousand years,
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And you hail us still unfed,
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Though there's never a dollar of all your wealth.
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But marks the workers' dead.
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We have yielded our best to give you rest
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And you lie on crimson wool.
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And if blood be the price of all your wealth,
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Good God! We have paid in full!

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There is never a mine blown skyward now.
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But we're buried alive for you.
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There's never a wreck drifts shoreward now,
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But we are its ghastly crew.
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Go reckon our dead by the forges red
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And the factories where we spin.
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If blood be the price of your cursed wealth,
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Good God! We have paid it in!


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We have fed you all for a thousand years -
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For that was our doom, you know;
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From the days when you chained us in your fields
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To the strike a week ago.
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You have taken our lives, our husbands and wives,
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And we're told it's your legal share.
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But if blood be the price of your lawful wealth,
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