If blood be the price of your cursed wealth
Good God, we ha’ paid it in!
We have fed you all for a thousand years,
For that was our doom, you know,
From the days when you chained us in your fields
To the strike of a week ago.
You ha’ eaten our lives and our babies and wives,
And we’re told it’s your legal share;
But, if blood be the price of your lawful wealth,
Good God, we ha’ bought it fair!