Tear The Fascists Down - Woody Guthrie

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[Intro]
             
There's a grea

              
t and a bloody

             
 fight 'round 

        
this whole wor

ld tonight
             
And the battle

              
, the bombs an

           
d shrapnel rai

n
             
Hitler told th

              
e world around

             
 he would tear

        
 our union dow

n
             
But our union'

              
s gonna break 

              
them slavery c


hains
             
Our union's go

              
nna break them

              
 slavery chain


s

[Verse 1]
             
I walked up on

              
 a mountain in

             
 the middle of

       
 the sky
             
Could see ever

              
y farm and eve

   
ry town
             
I could see al

              
l the people i

             
n this whole w

      
ide world
             
That's the uni

             
on that'll tea

              
r the fascists

 
 down, down, d

own
             
That's the uni

             
on that'll tea

              
r the fascists

  
 down
             
When I think o

              
f the men and 

             
the ships goin

  
g down
             
While the Russ

              
ians fight on 

            
across the Don
             
There's London

              
 in ruins and 

        
Paris in chain

s
             
Good people, w

             
hat are we wai

     
ting on?
             
Good people, w

             
hat are we wai

     
ting on?

[Verse 2]
             
So, I thank th

              
e Soviets and 

             
the mighty Chi

       
nese vets
             
The Allies the

              
 whole wide wo

     
rld around
             
To the battlin

              
g British, tha

             
nks, you can h

              
ave ten millio

  
n Yanks
             
If it takes 'e

             
m to tear the 

         
fascists down,

 down, down
             
If it takes 'e

             
m to tear the 

         
fascists down 

But
             
when I think o

              
f the ships an

             
d the men goin

  
g down
             
And the Russia

              
ns fight on ac

          
ross the Don
             
There's London

              
 in ruins and 

         
Paris in chain

s
             
Good people, w

             
hat are we wai

     
ting on?
             
Good people, w

             
hat are we wai

     
ting on?

[Outro]
             
So I thank the

              
 Soviets and t

             
he mighty Chin

       
ese vets
             
The Allies the

              
 whole wide wo

      
rld around
             
To the battlin

              
g British, tha

             
nks, you can h

              
ave ten millio

 
n Yanks
             
If it takes 'e

              
m to tear the 

              
fascists down,


 down, down
             
If it takes 'e

              
m to tear the 

              
fascists down

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