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作曲 : David Stefan Rovics |
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The famine had affected many people |
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From Ireland to the shores of the Baltic Sea |
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The soaring cost of food meant it took most of your earnings |
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Which meant the shutting down of much of industry |
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But no one knows for sure why the rebellion began |
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Or why it quickly spread from state to state |
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When in the mountains and the plains, from Galway to Ukraine |
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Came the Rising of 1848 |
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1848 |
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A pitchfork guess no match for a rifle |
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But there's nothing that will give the king a fright |
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As when he looks out of the window |
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And sees his castle burning in the night |
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But that's what happened in fifty different countries |
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Where the landlords oft encountered such a fate |
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From Budapest to Sicily life would never be the same |
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After the Rising of 1848 |
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1848 |
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Marx and Engels wrote a book which spread as quickly as the flames |
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From which the feudal barons had to flee |
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From the workers in the cities, from the peasants in the towns |
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And even from the petit bourgeoisie |
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United for a time by a common sense of purpose |
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To finally throw off the crushing weight of the dynastic rule of hereditary Lords |
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Who owned the Europe of 1848 |
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1848 |
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Tens of thousands died before it all was over |
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And some say it all ended in defeat |
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But the landscape was transformed when serfdom was abolished |
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Which is why we don't see history repeat |
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And the monarchs remembered when peasants with pitchforks |
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Came to burn down their estate |
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And most of them decided democracy was better |
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Than the Rising of 1848 |
