Dan Bern
Dan Bern - We Will Not Be Divided lyrics
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From the halls of Montezuma Down to the coal mines of Beaver Falls Socialist workers, moveon.org Green Peace, the Capital Mall International Brotherhood of Electical Workers United Fruit, the PTA We will not be divided, My friends, We will not be divided We will not be divided, my friends We will not be divided From the clashing cliffs of Big Sur To the white sands of the Keys Massapequa, Sausolito The sound of the Puget Breeze The bloody ground of Gettysburg To the white Wyoming fields We will not be divided, my friends We will not be divided You can separate a worker from his rightful dollar His Peso, his Euro, his Yen Trample his freedom, his restitution, His constitution my friend Steal his loot and take it to some island retreat You can run but you cannot hide We will not be divided, my friends We will not be divided Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Rodney King Woody Guthrie singing out in the rain Emma Goldman, Eleanor Roosevelt Abraham, Martin, and John We will not be divided, my friends We will not be divided We will not be divided, my friends We will not be divided From the tea-dumping party in Boston Little Rock, Memphis, Ann Arbor Julia Butterfly drawing the line Seattle '99 Haymarket, Christopher Street Paul Revere and his great freedom ride We will not be divided, my friends We will not be divided Fight on the picket line Down in the coal mine Working the phone lines Standing in the break line Humanists, Economists, God-fearing atheists Fair minded peace-loving people everywhere I do believe even Jesus Christ would cry to the heavens above: We will not be divided, my friends We will not be divided From Broadway to the Milky Way, Pacific Coast Highway Pompano Beach, Long Island, Queens The Brazos, The Ohio, Columbia, Manonga, Hela Missisippi down to New Orleans, Oakland to Aukland, Venice to Venezuala, Cairo to Tel Aviv We will not be divided, my friends We will not be divided Jesus in the desert Moses in the sea Mohammed on that mountain And the I and the Me become We Guantanamo to Wall Street Islamabad to Church Street The moon to Mercury We will not be divided, my friends We will not be divided Wherever people defend their right to own their own destiny Defend themselves against lies, against greed Defend their rights to be free From the Euphrates primordial mud to the dust of the moons of Mars We will not be divided, my friends We will not be divided We will not be divided, my friends We will not be divided We will not be divided, my friends We will not be divided