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In a letter to every president, congressman, career politician,
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Scrawled in spite across the envelope
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With all of our conviction.
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In only took a few hours for his peers
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To find him guilty in a trail too fair,
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A wobblie, immigrant worker has no place among the living.
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"My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce."
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Murdered by the capitalist,
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November 1915 be careful of what you wish.
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Who is wrong and who is righteous?
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What was stolen from us we will replace,
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Off with the head on the body we feast,
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Who is wrong and who is righteous,
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Will never be our own decision.
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He yelled fire to the squad with guns, they stopped his heart from beating.
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Every word he wrote, he spoke, he sung, we are still singing:
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"My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce,
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And let the breezes blow my dust to where some flowers grow.
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Perhaps some fading flower then would come to life and bloom again".
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If the workers take a notion,
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They can stop all speeding trains,
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Every ship upon the ocean.
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They can tie with mighty chains
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Every wheel in the creation,
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Every mine and every mill.
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Fleets and armies of all nations
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Will at our command stand still.
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