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Freedom for the Slaves (Wey Valley Radio)

by Mother of Order

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Recorded as part of a session for Wey Valley Radio in December 2018

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War! War! is the cry across the deep sea,
While the stars and the stripes boldly wave;
The war-hounds are loose, and soon we shall see,
The fetters cast off from the slave.

Oppression has ruled for many long years,
And bound down the good and the brave;
But sorrow and pain, with misery’s tears,
Shall cease to torment the poor slave.

War! War! is the cry across the deep sea,
While the stars and the stripes boldly wave;
The war-hounds are loose, and soon we shall see,
The fetters cast off from the slave.

Why not he enjoy the gifts of this life?
Is he not a man and a brother?
Has he not a claim to a home and a wife:
How comes he a serf to another?

War! War! is the cry across the deep sea,
While the stars and the stripes boldly wave;
The war-hounds are loose, and soon we shall see,
The fetters cast off from the slave.

I ask, is his state of no higher birth,
Nay, worse than the beasts of creation?
Did God place a SLAVE on the face of the earth,
To toil hard in chains and starvation?

Go on then, Reformers in Liberty’s name –
March forward the good and the brave;
‘Tis a foul blot on Freedom – Humanity’s shame,
But God shall redeem the poor slave.

War! War! is the cry across the deep sea,
While the stars and the stripes boldly wave;
The war-hounds are loose, and soon we shall see,
The fetters cast off from the slave.

War! War! is the cry across the deep sea,
While the stars and the stripes boldly wave;
The war-hounds are loose, and soon we shall see,
The fetters cast off from the slave.

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released January 5, 2019
Words : GGN
Music and Arrangement: Mother of Order

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Mother of Order England, UK

Mother of Order were Cath Rogan and the late Martin Hall. Born from shared politics, shared concerns and a general anarcho- syndicalist outlook on life.

They write and sing songs of industry and songs of love.

Their first album, Warp and Weft is songs of and about the Lancashire Cotton Famine.

They also have a repertoire of bawdy folk songs and modern material with a folk twist ... more

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