I have lived through bad times when winter came to take lives
Somehow we rode the storm, somehow I kept them warm
And I have lived with hunger to stop my children starving
And cried when death would call
Oh I have seen it all

I have heard men scheming of ways to set men fighting
Who'd kill on battle day, what for they could not say
And I have seen men rioting when pride had stopped their pleading
When shots rang out they'd fall
Oh I have seen it all

So don't tell me you're finished, for I live on inside you
And all those in your line - a chain as long as time
And we would not be broken, and we gave you this morning
So now you have the chance
Take it with both hands

And when at last you fall
Why, you have seen it all