Solidarity Song Poem by Bertolt Brecht

Solidarity Song

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Peoples of the world, together
Join to serve the common cause!
So it feeds us all for ever
See to it that it's now yours.

Forward, without forgetting
Where our strength can be seen now to be!
When starving or when eating
Forward, not forgetting
Our solidarity!

Black or white or brown or yellow
Leave your old disputes behind.
Once start talking with your fellow
Men, you'll soon be of one mind.

Forward, without forgetting
Where our strength can be seen now to be!
When starving or when eating
Forward, not forgetting
Our solidarity!

If we want to make this certain
We'll need you and your support.
It's yourselves you'll be deserting
if you rat your own sort.

Forward, without forgetting
Where our strength can be seen now to be!
When starving or when eating
Forward, not forgetting
Our solidarity!

All the gang of those who rule us
Hope our quarrels never stop
Helping them to split and fool us
So they can remain on top.

Forward, without forgetting
Where our strength can be seen now to be!
When starving or when eating
Forward, not forgetting
Our solidarity!

Workers of the world, uniting
Thats the way to lose your chains.
Mighty regiments now are fighting
That no tyrrany remains!

Forward, without forgetting
Till the concrete question is hurled
When starving or when eating:
Whose tomorrow is tomorrow?
And whose world is the world?

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Dutendra Chamling 06 November 2015

...Workers of the world, uniting Thats the way to lose your chains. Mighty regiments now are fighting That no tyrrany remains! ... Wonderful poem.

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Andrew Hoellering 02 December 2009

The words without the musical accompanyment are but a pale shadow of the original.The complete version can be heard in Kuhle Wampe, the film Brecht made with Hans Eisler and others, produced by my father, George Hoellering. It is available as a video from the British Film Institute.

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