《We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years》歌词

[00:00:10] we have fed you all for a thousand years

[00:00:14] and you hail us still unfed,

[00:00:18] though there's never a dollar of all your wealth

[00:00:23] but marks the workers' dead.

[00:00:27] we have yielded our best to give you rest

[00:00:31] and you lie on crimson wool.

[00:00:35] then if blood be the price of all your wealth,

[00:00:40] good god! we have paid it in full!

[00:00:44] there is never a mine blown skyward now

[00:00:48] but we're buried alive for you.

[00:00:52] there's never a wreck drifts shoreward now

[00:00:57] but we are its ghastly crew.

[00:01:01] go reckon our dead by the forges red

[00:01:05] and the factories where we spin.

[00:01:09] if blood be the price of your cursed wealth,

[00:01:14] good god! we have paid it in!

[00:01:18] we have fed you all a thousand years-

[00:01:22] for that was our doom, you know,

[00:01:26] from the days when you chained us in your fields

[00:01:31] to the strike a week ago.

[00:01:35] you have taken our lives, and our babies and wives,

[00:01:39] and we're told it's your legal share,

[00:01:42] but if blood be the price of your lawful wealth,

[00:01:47] good god! we bought it fair!