Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Bread and Roses, artist - Judy Collins. Album song Forever - An Anthology, in the genre
Date of issue: 30.06.2008
Record label: Elektra
Song language: English
Bread and Roses |
As we go marching, marching |
In the beauty of the day |
A million darkened kitchens |
A thousand mill lofts grey |
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 go marching, marching |
We battle too for men |
For they are women s children |
And we mother them again |
Our lives shall not be sweetened |
From birth until life closes |
Hearts starve as well as bodies |
Give us bread, but give us roses |
As we go marching, marching |
We bring the greater days |
For the rising of the women |
Means the rising of the race |
No more the drudge and idler |
Ten that toil where one reposes |
But the sharing of life s glories |
Bread and roses, bread and roses |
Words by James Oppenheim (1912), music by John Denver |