Miners' Song (1939)
We come from the gloom of the mine,
Claiming our share of the sun ;
Claiming our share of the sweets of the earth,
Our share of its riches, its comfort and mirth;
We come in the shackles of pain,
And steep is the way we must go.
But rally ! my comrades, our cause will not fail,
For Right is our watchword, and Right will prevail.
We came with the banner of Truth,
Freedom and Justice our end ;
Tho' traitors desert us and cowards despise,
Tho' masters deter us, in strength we will, rise--
And forward, like men, we will strive,
For the sake of the ages to be ;
So rally ! my comrades, our cause will not fail,
For Right is our watchword, and Right will prevail.
--Joe Corrie, in "The Miner."
Notes
From the Brisbane Newspaper the Worker 17 January 1939 p. 2.