Red Flag - Robert Wyatt

It waved above our infant might

When all ahead seemed dark as night;

It witnessed many a deed and vow

We must not change its colour now

Then raise the scarlet standard high

Within its shade we’ll live and die

Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer

We’ll keep the red flag flying here

It well recalls the triumphs past

It gives the hope of peace at last;

The banner bright, the symbol plain

Of human right and human gain

Then raise the scarlet standard high

Within its shade we’ll live and die

Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer

We’ll keep the red flag flying here

With heads uncovered swear we all

To bear it onward till we fall;

Come dungeons dark or gallows grim

This song shall be our parting hymn

Then raise the scarlet standard high

Within its shade we’ll live and die

Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer

We’ll keep the red flag flying here