Piano/Vocals: Commonwealth of Toil

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  • Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024

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  • @rmcewan10
    @rmcewan10 4 года назад +199

    As someone who's just getting into leftism, I've been genuinely taken aback by how much amazing music there is. I think this song is my favourite in English (the Germans also have some great ones), and this rendition is one of my favourites. You have an awesome voice! Keep it up dude.

    • @Iggy_Dogg
      @Iggy_Dogg 4 года назад +48

      Good art is inherently radical. Welcome to the right side of history. Organize organize organize!

    • @ThnbAnimatrll
      @ThnbAnimatrll 4 года назад +18

      Came for the music stayed for the ideals

    • @oracle8192
      @oracle8192 4 года назад +4

      @@ThnbAnimatrll based

    • @SpaghettiShaq
      @SpaghettiShaq 4 года назад +12

      The communists have the music

    • @ThnbAnimatrll
      @ThnbAnimatrll 4 года назад

      @@SpaghettiShaq Yeah that song is stupid.

  • @ThnbAnimatrll
    @ThnbAnimatrll 4 года назад +90

    In the gloom of mighty cities
    Midst the roar of whirling wheels
    We are toiling on like chattel slaves of old
    And our masters hope to keep us
    Ever thus beneath their heels
    And to coin our very life blood into gold
    But we have a glowing dream
    Of how fair the world will seem
    When each man can live his life secure and free
    When the earth is owned by labor
    And there's joy and peace for all
    In the Commonwealth of Toil that is to be
    They would keep us cowed and beaten
    Cringing meekly at their feet
    They would stand between each worker and his bread
    Shall we yield our lives up to them
    For the bitter crust we eat
    Shall we only hope for heaven when we're dead
    But we have a glowing dream
    Of how fair the world will seem
    When each man can live his life secure and free
    When the earth is owned by labor
    And there's joy and peace for all
    In the Commonwealth of Toil that is to be
    They have laid out life for us to the utter end of time
    Shall we stagger on beneath their heavy loom
    Shall we let them live forever in their guilt in halls of crime
    With our children doom to toil beneath their gold*
    But we have a glowing dream
    Of how fair the world will seem
    When each man can live his life secure and free
    When the earth is owned by labor
    And there's joy and peace for all
    In the Commonwealth of Toil that is to be
    When our cause is all triumphant
    And we claim our Mother Earth
    And the nightmare of the present fades away
    We shall live with love and laughter
    We who now are little worth
    And we'll not regret the price we have to pay
    But we have a glowing dream
    Of how fair the world will seem
    When each man can live his life secure and free
    When the earth is owned by labor
    And there's joy and peace for all
    In the Commonwealth of Toil that is to be
    In the Commonwealth of Toil that is to be
    -Long live revolution. We will live and rule proud and free in the commonwealth of toil that is to be. (Solidarity from Thailand)
    *This one is written by Jack himself and is rewritten by ear and I'm not native myself if you can tell.

  • @truegopnik6591
    @truegopnik6591 4 года назад +39

    The working class and employing class have nothing in common. There shall not be peace so long as hunger and want are found among the millions and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things in life.

  • @leboyneski5464
    @leboyneski5464 4 года назад +58

    I really love this song, I love the hope for a better world in every line. (Also pls do "Should I ever be a soldier by Joe Hill")

    • @MonsieurJack95
      @MonsieurJack95  4 года назад +17

      I didn't know the song but I just listened and I like it! I hope to get to it sometime.

    • @leboyneski5464
      @leboyneski5464 4 года назад +9

      @@MonsieurJack95 Thanks

  • @MyDuck42
    @MyDuck42 3 года назад +14

    By far the most beautiful version I have ever heard. Hard to believe it wasn't always sung like this.

  • @nothing-2-live-4
    @nothing-2-live-4 3 года назад +13

    One time when I was a teenager I tried to google "why are songs so important to communists" and never got an answer. This video pretty much says it all, in any case.

    • @anarchomando7707
      @anarchomando7707 2 года назад +1

      Ever heard of the international
      Now that is the Communist song

  • @dogeyes7261
    @dogeyes7261 4 года назад +22

    If we sang hymns like this at Mass, I'd probably still be Catholic

    • @mattstiefel4806
      @mattstiefel4806 3 года назад +10

      Amen, Comrade. The Catholic Worker Movement should make a comeback, so the Catholic Church can do something GOOD.

    • @bshbhyuh
      @bshbhyuh 3 года назад +4

      Some progressive Anglican/Episcopal churches probably would tbh

  • @mkra7769
    @mkra7769 Год назад +3

    I know it's not specifically a Christmas song, but I'm loving to listen to it on Christmas Eve.
    Happy Holidays everyone!!!

  • @evergreen6702
    @evergreen6702 4 года назад +8

    Thank you ^-^ this is one of my favorite lefty songs

  • @jacobcarden814
    @jacobcarden814 4 года назад +14

    Been loving all your new uploads! You always mix it up in comparison with the cadence and tone of the originals, too.

  • @arnavjd
    @arnavjd 4 года назад +6

    I love almost all of your music, but there's something so beautiful and hopeful in the way you sing this. My favourite, by far.

  • @kommi7658
    @kommi7658 4 года назад +6

    Absolutely beautiful rendition ♥️

  • @Suth1172
    @Suth1172 4 года назад +3

    Damn this is possibly the best I've heard this song sung. Good job mate!

  • @breadtheory
    @breadtheory 4 года назад +8

    Loved this! Thank You :)

  • @ellanowicki9792
    @ellanowicki9792 3 года назад +2

    This is such a powerful rendition! Thank you

  • @pennfyrenote8225
    @pennfyrenote8225 4 года назад +4

    Solidarity Forever, my Friend.

  • @wafl423
    @wafl423 4 года назад +4

    I would love to hear you do ode to the motherland

  • @abitcrazy22
    @abitcrazy22 6 месяцев назад

    How do I buy this album, if there is one?

  • @clockworkcrew8012
    @clockworkcrew8012 4 года назад +6

    I might not agree with your ideas, but you are an artist. Your ability on the piano is phenomenal and the pieces themselves have some great score.

  • @georgej1150
    @georgej1150 2 года назад +2

    I'm not leftist, I'm national liberal, but, reds have so cool music!

  • @spooks4772
    @spooks4772 4 года назад +3

    Nice,I actually ended up setting up my background as the cat of the WIW, say, you ever gonna do any ancap songs? XD

    • @MonsieurJack95
      @MonsieurJack95  4 года назад +28

      lol probably not. maybe in 50 years when I've run out of material

    • @brigadiergeneralstrike3536
      @brigadiergeneralstrike3536 4 года назад +7

      Implying there are any other than Mr. Dapperton's channel intro and maybe Start Up the Rotors lmao

    • @JoetheDilo1917
      @JoetheDilo1917 4 года назад +28

      Ancaps aren't anarchists

    • @chaotik_katastrofik
      @chaotik_katastrofik 4 года назад +1

      KaiserExcalibur Cookie Greetings, I am just curious. Are you an ancap, aninv or what? I'd like to ask how you interpret Stirner, or, why do you have Stirner pfp with your ideology. How do the ideas of Max Stirner correspond with your ideoframe?
      Thanks for reply.

    • @spooks4772
      @spooks4772 4 года назад

      @@chaotik_katastrofik i uhh... just a...feel as though everyone here will hate on me for my ideology so uh...I won't tell u my full ideology, but it dose inclued the occult and for the Max Stirner question, I think he's got interesting ideas worth learning, also sorry for replying kind of late