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Based on a 1911 poem by James Oppenheim, this song has long been an anthem of the labor movement. We love singing it because it reminds us that people's needs are worth fighting for, and that those needs aren't just physical or financial - they are emotional, as well.
Recorded in isolation April 2020
lyrics
As we go marching, marching in the beauty of the day
A thousand darkened kitchens, a hundred mill lofts grey
Are touched by all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses
For the people hear us singing, bread and roses, bread and roses
As we go marching marching unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew
Yes it is bread we fight for but we fight for roses too
As we go marching marching we battle too for men
For they are in the struggle and together we shall win
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes
Hearts starve as well as bodies give us bread but give us roses
As we go marching marching we're standing proud and tall
For the rising ofthe women means the rising of us all
No more the drudge and idler, ten that toil where one reposes
But a sharing of life's glories bread and roses bread and roses
Hearts starve as well as bodies. Give us bread but give us roses
Bread and roses bread and roses
