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If we Must Die

from Whatever Says the Clock by Romain Gutsy

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Lyrics by Claude McKay

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If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.

Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!

Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?

Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

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from Whatever Says the Clock, released October 9, 2020

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Romain Gutsy France

Romain Gutsy is a French-born songwriter, singer and musician, whose first solo album (2020, under the name of THE RED) is dedicated to American and Irish poets.

Influenced by country music as well as Irish and American folk singers, Romain Gutsy treats his music with no fixed rules which would enclose it in very definite style.
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