War Songs For The Last Call

[Kamish]

GET UP, STAND UP
Bob Marley

Get Up, Stand Up,
stand up for your right (3 times)
Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight

Preacher man don't tell me heaven is under the earth
I know you don't know what life is really worth
Is not all that glitters in gold and
Half the story has never been told
So now you see the light, aay
Stand up for your right.

Come on Get Up, Stand Up,
stand up for your right
Get Up, Stand Up,
don't give up the fight (Repeat)

Most people think great God will come from the sky
Take away ev'rything, and make ev'rybody feel high
But if you know what life is worth
You would look for yours on earth
And now you see the light
You stand up for your right, yeah!

Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right
Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight
Get Up, Stand Up. Life is your right

So we can't give up the fight
Stand up for your right, Lord, Lord Get Up,
Stand Up. Keep on struggling on
Don't give up the fight

We're sick and tired of your ism and skism game
Die and go to heaven in Jesus' name,
Lord We know when we understand
Almighty God is a living man

You can fool some people sometimes
But you can't fool all the people all the time
So now we see the light
We gonna stand up for our right

So you'd better get up, stand up, stand up for your right
Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight
Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right
Get Up, Stand Up, don't give up the fight.

[Kamish]

Like Soldiers Do

Blues eyes fighting the grey eyes fighting the tears
Armed to the teeth for a war of words
Reaching all the years
I advanced across a poppy field
I saw the gleam as you raised your shield
And love screamed down
With the sun behind its back

Our Fathers were all soldiers,
Shall we be soldiers too
Fighting and falling like soldiers do

Nothing is clear in this tactical unclear war
I can't be bothered to find out
What we are fighting for
No one can win this war of the senses
I see no reason to drop my defences
So stand fast my emotions,
Rally round my shaking heart

Our Fathers were all soldiers,
Shall we be soldiers too
Fighting and falling like soldiers do

Blue eyes fighting the grey eyes fighting the tears
Armed to the teeth for a war of words
Reaching all the years
I advanced across a poppy field
I saw the gleam as you raised your shield
And love screamed down
With the sun behind its back
I knew once again I was under attack
So stand fast my emotions,
Rally round my shaking heart

Our Fathers were all soldiers,
Shall we be soldiers too
Fighting and falling like soldiers
Fighting and falling like soldiers
Fighting and falling like soldiers do

[Kamish]

Rumours of War
Billy Bragg

There were soldiers marching on the common today
They were there again this evening
They paced up and down like seabirds on the ground
Before the stormclouds gathering

I must buy whatever tinned food is left on the shelves
They're testing the air raid sirens
They've filled up the blood banks and emptied the beds
At the hospital and the asylum.

I saw a man build a shelter in his garden today
As we stood there idly chatting,
He said, "no, no, I don't think war will come,"
Yet still he carried on digging.

Everything in my life that I love
Could be swept away without warning
Yet the birds still sing and the church bells ring
And the sun came up this morning.

[Kamish]

"Don't Let The Bastards (Get You Down)"
By Kris Kristoffferson

(Third World Warrior )

They’re killing babies in the name of freedom.
We’ve been down that sorry road before.
They let us hang around a little longer than they should’ve.
It’s too late to fool us anymore.

We’ve seen the ones, who killed the ones with vision,
Cold blooded murder right before your eyes
Today they hold the power, and the money, and the guns.
It’s getting hard to listen to their lies.

I just gotta wonder what my daddy would’ve done,
If he’d seen the way they turned his dream around.
I’ve gotta go by what he told me:
"Try to tell the truth and stand your ground.
Don’t let the bastards get you down."

Mining roads…
Killing farmers…
Blowing up schools… full of children
Fighting communism…

I just gotta wonder what my daddy would’ve done
If he’d seen the way they turned his dream around.
I’ve gotta go by what he told me:
"Try to tell the truth and stand your ground.
Don’t let the bastards get you down."