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Your Daughters and Your Sons

from Bring out the Banners by Paul 'Bolshie' Brown

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Another song that became very popular during the British Miners’ Strike of 1984-5. I started singing it on the People’s March Against the Poll Tax which I did with 30 or so other anti-poll tax campaigners in 1990. We marched from Glasgow to London singing songs all the way and this was a particular favourite.

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They wouldn't hear your music
And they pulled your paintings down
They wouldn't read your writing
And they banned you from the town

But they couldn't stop you dreaming
And a victory you have won
For you sowed the seeds of freedom
In your daughters and your sons
In your daughters and your sons
Your daughters and your sons
You sowed the seeds of freedom
In your daughters and your sons

Your weary smile it proudly hides
The chainmarks on your hands
As you bravely strive to realise
The rights of everyone
And though your body's bent and low
A victory you have won
For you sowed the seeds of justice
In your daughters and your sons

I don't know your religion
But one day I heard you pray
For a world where everyone can work
And children they can play
And though you never got your share
Of the fruits that you have won
You sowed the seeds of equality
In your daughters and your sons

They taunted you in Belfast
And they tortured you in Spain
And in that Warsaw ghetto
Where they tied you up in chains
And in Vietnam and Chile
Where they came with tanks and guns
It's there you sowed the seeds of peace
In your daughters and your sons

And now your music's playing
And the writing's on the wall
And all the dreams you painted
Can be seen by one and all
Now you've got them thinking
And the future's just begun
For you sowed the seeds of freedom
In your daughters and your sons

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from Bring out the Banners, released March 11, 2019
Copyright – Tommy Sands | Arranged – Paul Brown | Vocals – Paul Brown, Ian Bartlett, Noel Armstrong and Jean Reid

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