“Onward, Friends of Freedom” Sheet Music (pdf).
“Onward, Friends of Freedom” Karaoke (midi with lyrics).
Lyrics: John Glasse.
Tune: “Onward, Christian Soldiers.”
Toilers of the nations,
Thinkers of the time,
Sound the note of battle
Loud through every clime;
March ye ’gainst the tyrants,
Heedless of the steel;
Be a band of brothers;
Speed the common Weal!
Onward, friends of freedom;
Onward for the strife;
Each for all we struggle:
One in death and life.
Seamstress in the hovel,
Women of the mill,
Low indeed ye grovel;
Tame ye are and still.
Come like the Valkyries,
Beauteous in your might;
Sing ye songs of valor;
Nerve us for the fight!
Onward, friends of freedom;
Onward for the strife;
Each for all we struggle:
One in death and life.
Toil we now no longer
For another’s gain
While our wives and children
Pine in want and pain;
Grieve we now no longer
At another’s good;
Let us all be brothers;
Let us all have food!
Onward, friends of freedom;
Onward for the strife;
Each for all we struggle:
One in death and life.