“A Call to Action” Sheet Music (pdf).
“A Call to Action” Karaoke (midi with lyrics).
Lyrics: Anonymous.
Tune: “Smile.”
Workers, now I know what will make the union grow.
Agitation, education will defeat the foe.
Workers, don’t you see you must make your own selves free?
Do get wise and organize and strike for liberty.
We’ll no longer work for wages; we’ll just take all we produce.
We have been wage slaves all through the ages.
We, ourselves, must break the fetters loose.
Then, we will no longer heed the masters.
Our defiance at them we will hurl,
And we’ll bid goodbye to all wage slavery,
And the Red Flag we will unfurl.
Masters boast in vain: “Bolshevism is on the wane.”
But the shirkers will be workers under Labor’s reign.
Toilers, don’t despair: we have but to do our share.
Agitating, educating, we must do and dare.
We’ll no longer work for wages; we’ll just take all we produce.
We have been wage slaves all through the ages.
We, ourselves, must break the fetters loose.
Then, we will no longer heed the masters.
Our defiance at them we will hurl,
And we’ll bid goodbye to all wage slavery,
And the Red Flag we will unfurl.
We’ll no longer work for wages; we’ll just take all we produce.
We have been wage slaves all through the ages.
We, ourselves, must break the fetters loose.
Then, we will no longer heed the masters.
Our defiance at them we will hurl,
And we’ll bid goodbye to all wage slavery,
And the Red Flag we will unfurl.