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Subject: Lyr Req: We are the builders From: GUEST,2feathers Date: 11 Jun 06 - 09:46 PM Song I learned many years ago - labor songs, probably THE great depression. Words ai remember are We are the builders We build the future The Future world is in our hands All power and (????) unto the workers Is our (????) battle cry And we the builders Who build the future We fight and do not care to die----??? Would like to know origin or source. Thanks. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are the builders From: Peace Date: 11 Jun 06 - 09:50 PM "A few workers' theatres dallied with musicals. For instance, the Yugoslav Players did "We are the Builders," a play with music;[241]" From www.nvcc.edu/home/etrumbull/diss/ch3.htm Maybe there? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are the builders From: GUEST,2feathers Date: 11 Jun 06 - 10:15 PM Very interesting but L O N G article about the development of leftist theater groups during the depression. I've bookmarked it for going back to. I don't think I will find the acual lyrics in this source, however. Many references - if I had the time..... Thank you for the reference. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are the builders From: Peace Date: 11 Jun 06 - 10:19 PM I have not found any lyrics. They sound like something from the USSR--let's build solidarity in the working class. Wonder if it might be a translation. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are the builders From: GUEST,2feathers Date: 11 Jun 06 - 10:37 PM My own memory is so short these days. The last line I remember is, " we fight and do not FEAR to die" Sounds very militant. I seem to remember a chorus singing it. Melody is very simple. Sol-do-re-mi-mi (repeat), sol-do-re-mi-sol fa mi, sol-sol-sol -ti-ti (repeat) sol-sol-sol-ti-la-fa-mi-do. Wouldn't win any prizes. I never know why old songs pop into my head. Your suggestion of origin is interesting. If the song fades out of my head, well, that happens as often as they come in. I am going to be 82 soon. I don't think senior dementia is on me, but who knows? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are the builders From: Peace Date: 11 Jun 06 - 11:09 PM 2feathers: I am finding ziltch. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are the builders From: open mike Date: 12 Jun 06 - 03:59 PM this sounds like something that john muccutcheon sings.. about the workers who built the sydney australia opera house. his web site is www.folkmusic.com |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are the builders From: Sorcha Date: 12 Jun 06 - 04:33 PM Bob the Builder? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are the builders From: Bob Bolton Date: 13 Jun 06 - 01:34 AM G'day open mike, I wasn't there (nearly moved to foundation stressing work on Opera House ... but left that firm and headed elsewhere ...) but it may be that the John McCutcheon song is related to the famous occasion of Paul Robeson singing to the opera House workers in the unfinished space of the Concert Hall. (If I wasn't trying to look hard at work ... I might have time to pursue the history of that one ...) Regard(les)s, Bob |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are the builders From: Bob Bolton Date: 14 Jun 06 - 12:04 AM G'day again, open mike (et al, Well, a quick search (lunchtime ... ) yeilds this: "He was the first internationally renowned singer to perform at the Sydney Opera House — in 1960. He climbed onto the scaffolding and sang to the building workers during its construction. While in Australia he sang to thousands of other workers, including on the waterfront." That makes it pretty early in the construction (5 or 6 years before I might have worked there - if I hadn't gone back to Tasmania). The site I picked this from didn't mention what he sang ... and I had better not check the other thousands of hits ... at lunchtime, anyway! Regards, Bob |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are the builders From: ossonflags Date: 14 Jun 06 - 12:31 AM Don't know if this helps but Ewan McCall wrote and sang a song called "We are the engineers" which is somewhat on the same lines |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are the builders From: Jim Dixon Date: 20 Jun 06 - 12:43 AM This blog says Paul Robeson sang JOE HILL to the workers at the Sydney Opera House in 1960. John McCutcheon's web site features a photo of "Paul Robeson, singing at the site of the Sydney Opera House in 1960" alongside the lyrics of JOE HILL, but there is no further explanation. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: We are the builders From: Jim Dixon Date: 22 Jun 06 - 07:07 AM Google Book Search comes through! From the Pioneers, we "graduated" to the Young Communist League (YCL) and then to the Communist Party. The Party led and controlled both youth organizations. In the Young Pioneers, we had lots of picnics and we sang songs. The first revolutionary song I ever learned went like this: We are the builders; we build the future. The future world is in our hands. We swing our hammers, we use our weapons Against the foe in every land. And we, the workers, who are the builders, We fight; we do not fear to die. --From "California Girlhood" by Lillian Carlson, one of the articles in the book "Red Diapers: Growing up in the Communist Left", edited by Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro, published by University of Illinois Press, 1998. |
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