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Bread and Roses

from Cradle Songs, Grave Songs by Brivele

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lyrics

Ven mir kumen on marshirn
In a sheynem heln tog
Kikhn tunkele milyonen
A toyznt shaps oyf shtok
Baputst vern mit shtraln
Ven di zun’s aroys-geshprungen
Vayl di mentshn hern zingen
“Broyt un royzn, broyt un blumen”

Ven mir kumen on marshirn
Far mener oykh kemft men
Vayl froyens zin un brider
Mames zaynen mir geven
S’vet fun undz keyn shveys nit rinen
Fun geburt biz ende lebn
Hertzer hungern, oykh kerper:
Git undz broyt, un git undz blumen

Ven mir geyen marshirn
Brengen mir besere teg
Vayl vos shtarker mir di froyen
Vert alts shtarker oykh di velt
On shklaferay, on leydik geyers
Arbetn tsen, genist nor eyner
Teylt zikh mit dem guts fun lebn
Broyt un royzn! Broyt un blumen!

As we go marching, marching
In the beauty of the day
A million darkened kitchens
A thousand mill lofts gray
Are touched with all the radiance
That a sudden sun discloses
For the people hear us singing
“Bread and roses! Bread and roses!”

As we go marching, marching,
We battle too for men
For patriarchy hurts us all
And it has got to end
Our lives shall not be sweated
From birth until life closes
Hearts starve as well as bodies:
Give us bread, but give us roses

As we go marching, marching
Unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing
Their ancient call for bread
Small art and love and beauty
Their drudging spirits knew
Yes it is bread we fight for
But we fight for roses, too!

As we go marching, marching
The people hear our call:
The rising of the women
Means the rising of us all
No more the drudge and idler
Ten that toil where one reposes
But a sharing of life’s glories
Bread and roses! Bread and roses!

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from Cradle Songs, Grave Songs, released May 1, 2021
Attributions:
Rose Schneiderman and Helen Todd are both (separately) credited with coining the slogan “Bread and Roses.” Both were suffragists: Todd a labor activist and Schneiderman a labor union leader. The slogan inspired James Oppenheim’s poem “Bread and Roses,” published in December 1911 in The American Magazine. The Lawrence, MA textile strike began in January 1912 and was also known as the “Bread and Roses Strike.”

Melody by Mimi Fariña.

English lyrics revised by Brivele for May Day 2018.

Yiddish translation by Aron Gonshor and Edit Kuper, for the 2018 production of A Bintl Brief at Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre in the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montreal, Canada.

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A discontented punky-klezy trio of Yiddishists.

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Stefanie Brendler (accordion, vox, glockenspiel, slide whistle)
Maia Brown (banjo, vox)
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