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Bread and Roses

Judy Collins
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BREAD AND ROSES

As we come marching, marching in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing: "Bread and roses! Bread and roses!"

As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!

As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread.
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew.
Yes, it is bread we fight for -- but we fight for roses, too!

As we come marching, marching, we bring the greater days.
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
No more the drudge and idler -- ten that toil where one reposes,
But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses! Bread and roses!
BREAD AND ROSES

Ven mir kumen on marshirn
In a sheynem heln tog
Kikhn tunkele milyonen
A toyznt shaps oyf shtok
Baputst vern mit shtraln
Ven di zun’s aroys-geshprungen
Vayl di mentshn hern zingen
“Broyt un royzn, broyt un blumen”

Ven mir kumen on marshirn
Far mener oykh kemft men
Vayl froyens zin un brider
Mames zaynen mir geven
S’vet fun undz keyn shveys nit rinen
Fun geburt biz ende lebn
Hertzer hungern, oykh kerper:
Git undz broyt, un git undz blumen

Ven mir geyen marshirn
Brengen mir besere teg
Vayl vos shtarker mir di froyen
Vert alts shtarker oykh di velt
On shklaferay, on leydik geyers
Arbetn tsen, genist nor eyner
Teylt zikh mit dem guts fun lebn
Broyt un royzn! Broyt un blumen!


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