The Red Flag Lyrics

The song The Red Flag is performed by Billy Bragg in the album named Volume 1 in the year 2006 .



The people's flag is deepest red
It shrouded oft our martyred dead
And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold
Their hearts' blood dyed to every fold

Chorus:
Then raise the scarlet standard high
Beneath it's folds we'll live and die
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here

It waved above our infant might
When all ahead seemed dark as night
It witnessed many a deed and vow
We must not change it's colour now

Chorus

It well recalls the triumphs past
It gives the hope of peace at last
The banner bright, the symbol plain
Of human right and human gain

Chorus

It suits today the meek and base
Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place
To cringe beneath the rich man's frown
And haul that sacred emblem down

Chorus

With heads uncovered swear we all
To bare it onward till we fall
Come dungeons dark or gallows grim
This song shall be our parting hymn

Chorus

Words: jim connell music: "the white cockade"



Billy Bragg - Volume 1

Mar 2006

  1. The Cloth ( I ) (2:50)
  2. Love Lives Here (1:41)
  3. Speedway Hero (2:37)
  4. Loving You Too Long (2:49)
  5. Loves Gets Dangerous (2:30)
  6. Man In The Iron Mask (2:15)
  7. A13 (2:25)
  8. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend (2:32)
  9. Myth Of Trust (2:54)
  10. This Guitar Says Sorry (2:32)
  11. It Must Be A River (2:18)
  12. Won'T Talk About It (5:04)
  13. Talking Wag Club Blues (2:56)
  14. You Got The Power (3:08)
  15. The Last Time (2:53)
  16. Back To The Old House (2:50)
  17. World Turned Upside Down (Between The Wars Ep) (2:36)
  18. Train Train (2:13)
  19. The Marriage (2:32)
  20. Ideology (3:27)
  21. Honey I'M A Big Boy Now (4:08)
  22. Power In A Union (2:49)
  23. Wishing The Days Away (2:30)
  24. The Passion (2:54)
  25. The Home Front (4:12)
  26. Sin City (3:32)
  27. Deportees (4:00)
  28. Tracks Of My Tears (2:54)
  29. The Clashing Of Ideologies (2:49)
  30. A Nurse's Life Is Full Of Woe (2:46)
  31. Only Bad Signs (3:09)
  32. Hold The Fort (1:48)
  33. CHILE YOUR WATERS RUN RED THROUGH SOWETO
  34. DAYS LIKE THESE (DC REMIX)
  35. JOE HILL
  36. THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
  37. NEVER CROSS A PICKET LINE
  38. A CHANGE IS GONNA COME
  39. A MINERS LIFE
  40. The Internationale (3:49)
  41. I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night (1:29)
  42. The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions (4:00)
  43. Blakes Jerusalem (2:32)
  44. Nicaragua Nicaraguita (1:09)
  45. The Red Flag (3:13)
  46. My Youngest Son Came Home Today (3:08)
  47. Intro (Live) (0:58)
  48. Think Again (4:21)
  49. A13, TRUNK ROAD TO THE SEA

The Red Flag