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Do You Hear the People Sing?

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again

When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes

 

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free (refrain)

 

Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall & some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France (refrain)

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Les Misérables ©1987 

No Kings Here

[Chorus]
No Kings Here
Not in my America
No Kings Here
Not in my USA
Got no need for royalty
We believe in loyalty
To what we call democracy
No Kings Here

[Verse 1]
George Washington was president
Not just once but twice
And when they offered him a crown
They gave him this advice:

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[Chorus]

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[Verse 2]
When Betsy Ross sewеd up the flag
She found one thing was truе
There was no room for purple
It was all Red, White, and Blue

 

[Chorus]


[Verse 3]
We had a king once, years ago
Back in days of yore
He showed us what kings were like
So we showed him the door

[Chorus]

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Tom Paxton ©2025

Only Peace in the Present

(sing each verse twice)

 

Only peace in the present

Will bring peace in the future

Only love right now can show us how

 

We are brothers and sisters

And we walk together

In a world that’s one

We take care of each other

 

There’s a world where our children

Can prosper and thrive

Where truth and justice

Keep hope alive

 

We don’t need your hatred

We don’t want your wars

We know love and kindness

Will open any door

 

Only peace in the present

Will bring peace in the future

Only love right now

Can show us how

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James Graham ©2026

The Star-Spangled Banner

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

 

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
’Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

 

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

 

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto - “In God is our trust,”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

If I Had a Hammer

If I had a hammer, I'd hammer out the morning (hammer in the evening)
I'd hammer out the evening, all over this land
I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out a woman
I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land

 

If I had a bell, I'd ring it in the morning
I'd ring it in the evening, all over this land
I'd ring out danger, I'd ring out a warning
I'd ring out love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land

 

If I had a song, I'd sing it in the morning
I'd sing it in the evening, all over this land
I'd sing out danger, I'd sing out a warning
Sing out war, sing out love
I'd sing out love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land

 

Well, I got a hammer and I got a bell
And I got a song to sing all over this land
It's the "hammer" of justice, it's the "bell" of freedom
It's a song about love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land

No More Kings
(Hilde Ojibway)

No more kings (feel the power)

No more kings (this is the hour)

A world of peace where freedom rings

No More Kings!

 

We rise high (feel the power)

We rise high (this is the hour)

Hear our voices fill the sky

We rise high!!

 

We build anew (feel the power)

We build anew (this is the hour)

A world of freedom for me and you

We build anew!

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Hilde Ojibway ©2026

Power and Glory

(chorus)

Here is a land full of power and glory

Beauty words can not recall

Oh her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom

Her glory shall rest on us all.....on us all

This Joy

This joy that I have, the world didn't give it to me (oh, oh, oh)

This joy that I have, the world didn't give it to me (don't you know that)

This joy that I have, the world didn't give it to me 

ooh, I said, the world didn't give it, the world can't take it away

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* This STRENGTH

* This LOVE

* This PRIDE

* This PEACE 

* This JOY

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Resistance Revival Choir ©2026

Lead With Love

(chorus)
You gotta put one foot in front of the other And lead with love Put one foot in front of the other And lead with love! (2x)

Verse 1

Don’t give up hope

You’re not alone

Don’t you give up

Keep movin’ on

 

Verse 2

Lift up your eyes

Don’t you despair

Look up ahead

The path is there

 

Verse 3

I know you’re scared

And I’m scared, too

But here I am

Right next to you!

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Melanie DeMore, ©2016

Oh Mary, Don't You Weep

(chorus)
Oh Mary don't you weep don't you mourn

Oh Mary don't you weep don't you mourn

Pharaoh's army got drowned, Oh Mary, don't you weep!

Streets of Minneapolis

Through the winter's ice and cold, down Nicollet Avenue
A city aflame fought fire and ice 'neath an occupier's boots
King Trump's private army from the DHS, guns belted to their coats
Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law or so their story goes

Against smoke and rubber bullets, in the dawn's early light
Citizens stood for justice, their voices ringing through the night
And there were bloody footprints where mercy should have stood
And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets, Alex Pretti and Renee Good

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice singing through the bloody mist
We'll take our stand for this land and the stranger in our midst
Here in our home they killed and roamed in the winter of '26
We'll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis

Trump's federal thugs beat up on his face and his chest
Then we heard the gunshots and Alex Pretti lay in the snow dead
Their claim was self-defense, sir, just don't believe your eyes
It's our blood and bones and these whistles and phones against Miller and Noem's dirty lies

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice crying through the bloody mist
We'll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis

Now they say they're here to uphold the law but they trample on our rights
If your skin is black or brown my friend you can be questioned or deported on sight
In our chants of "ICE out now!" our city's heart and soul persists
Through broken glass and bloody tears on the streets of Minneapolis

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice singing through the bloody mist
Here in our home they killed and roamed in the winter of '26
We'll take our stand for this land and the stranger in our midst
We'll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis
We'll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis

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Bruce Springsteen, ©2026

This Land is Your Land

This land is your land,

and this land is my land

From California to the New York Island

From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream Waters

This land was made

for you and me

 

As I went walking that ribbon of highway

And I saw above me that endless skyway

I saw below me that golden valley

This land was made for you and me

 

I roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps

To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts

All around me a voice was

a-sounding

This land was made for you and me

 

There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me

Sign was painted, said, "Private Property"

But on the back side, it didn't say nothing

This land was made for you and me

 

When the sun comes shining, then I was strolling

And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling

A voice come chanting as the fog was lifting

This land was made for you and me

 

This land is your land,
and this land is my land

From California to the New York Island

From Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream Waters

This land was made for you and me

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Woody Guthrie, ©1940

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