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Labor Song #2

BLACK BANNER

Comrades, the supreme power of the
capital oppresses us everywhere,
Comrades, already long ago the time
has come for hungry people to wake up.

The Bourgeois, our enemy- the supreme
power everywhere- has been daring us
to the battle for a long time.

Let the Black Banner indicate the idea of
working people.
They have been oppressing, maiming
and fining us mercilessly; they have
been pushing us in groups into the
grave;

However, our enemy will rejoice not
long; already our time has come.
The Bourgeois, our enemy- the supreme
power everywhere- has been daring us
to the battle for a long time…etc.

The police call for the order with their
bayonets,
The priests are telling us nonsense from
the pulpit;
Tsar the Father nods only with his head
He says: the Bourgeois is the master
near the throne.

The Bourgeois, our enemy- the supreme
power everywhere- has been daring us
to the battle for a long time…etc.

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Put down the shameful power of capital,
reigning everywhere;
Comrades! Arms!  The time has come for
hungry people to wake up! 
The Bourgeois, our enemy- the supreme
power everywhere- has been daring us to the
battle for a long time…etc.