<h3> <SPAN name="song"></SPAN> I. W. W. PRISON SONG </h3>
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(Tune: "The Red Flag")</p>
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The pale and dismal daylight falls<br/>
Through iron bars on prison walls.<br/>
In chains we came from far and near,<br/>
And in dark cells they hold us here.<br/></p>
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CHORUS<br/></p>
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Defiant 'neath the Iron Heel;<br/>
Their walls of stone and bars of steel!<br/>
For though all hell at us is hurled,<br/>
We and our kind shall rule the world!<br/></p>
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At us the blood-hounds are let loose,<br/>
The lynch-mobs with the knotted noose;<br/>
In legal sanctioned mask and gown<br/>
The New Black Hundreds hunt us down.<br/></p>
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To all brave comrades o'er the sea,<br/>
In chains for human liberty,<br/>
And all jailed rebels everywhere<br/>
We say: be bold to do and dare!<br/></p>
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By all the graves of Labor's dead,<br/>
By Labor's deathless flag of red,<br/>
We make a solemn vow to you,—<br/>
We'll keep the faith; we will be true.<br/></p>
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For Freedom laughs at prison bars<br/>
Her voice re-echoes from the stars;<br/>
Proclaiming with the tempest's breath<br/>
A Cause beyond the reach of death!<br/></p>
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