Judy Collins - Bread And Roses Lyrics

"We battle too for men". Such sentiments are now alein to Feminism and its collaborators - they cannot be despised too much. Till women again support their men, men will increasingly - walk away. Walk Away, Men! Away with these vulgat degenerate gynocentric Marcist-Leninist cunts!

Always beautiful and, sadly, always relevant!

I imagine this playing whenever I see a female socialist. That is a good thing.

Thank you very much for thie nice version of Bread and Roses by Judy Collins !

She looks kind of 'elvish' XD...

Up the workers, fuck the 1%

С праздником, товарищи рабочие.

True feminism, ladies and gent;emen.
Compare and contrast to IDpol and intersectionality.

Дядя Джо, неожиданно! С праздником Неоновая Вишня!

I told the men I work with, (I work with all men) that it was International Women's Day. They all laughed at me.

This song is literally intersectionality lmao, do you even know what that is?

"@imagine a future " where tankies and the like actually know what they're talking about...

50MT Revolutionary

So-called ‘tankies’ are mostly intersectional

Isn’t this like a socialist song

Dr4gon 360 yep

It's a human dignity song. Is socialism about human dignity? Then I guess it is....

Yes it's about a woman's strike and march made by the socialist union IWW.

Does it matter?

Absolutely gorgeous version. Makes me choke up a little every time.

This song brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to it. Just amazing !!!

In the year of Trump and METOO I wish I could somehow bring this song out to the media that men and women are here all together and we need to make the word a saner and safer place to be

Join the DSA. I did. Let's get this song back on the people's tongues.

I am Canadian. What is the DSA?

This is my fave amongst all the versions!

My wife knew last yrar that her cancer was terminal and she chose this to be played at her funeral, feminist and socialist to her last breath, I am pleased that I introduced her to Judy C longer ago than I care to remember. Even more reason to weep when I hear it now.

Yes, it seems you absolutely dread people stopping to buy in into virtue signalling.

@Szgerle I get it. You lack emotional intelligence and probably logical intelligence as well, and can't grasp how empathy and sympathy for others isn't "virtue signaling". You must be fourteen years old at best, because that's about your mental aptitude and limit.

Look at that sheer, incoherent anger when someones virtue signalling got denied.

@Szgerle Yes, you are incoherent. Hopefully, you'll work on that.

Rage more, you are still not getting your goodperson dopamine rush here.

Kaiserreich

Deadass

why won't you people die already

Reed gains trait "rightful president."

@Jalal Alsibahie God I wish. As long as they're not TERFs.

Patrick Reams not commies, but Russians, all Russian music are great no exemptions for USSR

Straight up one of the most beautiful socialist songs ever.

Trying to find the original version of this from Kaiserreich

This is the one

Have you heard Sarah Owen's arrangement ( and different melody) of Bread and Roses? Very beautiful and really brings out the poignancy of the words. Sung by 60 Devonian women as part of Her Story 2 earlier this year.

Could her nostrils be any bigger?

This is your comment? your are as thick as two short planks - by this I mean you are stupid

you jack off to anime characters that don't have noses at all so what the fuck do you know about normal human anatomy, dumbass?

damn you gotta point

D I R E C T R U L E F R O M L O N D O N

D I R E C T R U L E F R O M W I E N

I N D I R E C T R U L E F R O M A N N I E K E N N E Y

R E C L A I M T H E B I R T H R I G H T

B R E A K T H E C H A I N S, C O M R A D E!

D I R E C T R U L E F R O M E D W A R D

I first heard "Bread and Roses", sung by Judy Collins, years ago, when I was a younger woman. I am, now, an older woman. Now, as then, I weep listening to this song. The lyrics, the history of it, the musical rendition, the 21st century realities that the struggle continues and my own life experiences bring the tears. Sometimes they are tears of joy, witnessing the baby steps of acceptance, new laws and global support. Sometimes they are tears of deep sadness knowing there is so much more that needs to be accomplished. Thank you, as always, Judy Collins and all. "...The rising of the women means the rising of the race...."

I still like this version best. The album cover is great, too.

Haunting voices from both 1912 & 1976.

My personal soundtrack to the Women's March in Washington, DC 1/21.2017 with Pantsuit Nation!

Breathtaking.

Dignity for the workers of the world!

Solidarity!

They fought for bread and roses too. Amazing song.

The Lawrence textile strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Prompted by a two-hour pay cut corresponding to a new law shortening the workweek, the strike spread rapidly through the town, growing to more than twenty thousand workers and involving nearly every mill in Lawrence. The strike united workers from 51 different nationalities.
The Lawrence strike is often referred to as the "Bread and Roses" strike, or, the "strike for three loaves".The phrase "bread and roses" actually preceded the strike, however, appearing in a poem by James Oppenheim published in The Atlantic Monthly in December 1911. However, a 1916 labor anthology, The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest by Upton Sinclair, attributed the phrase to the Lawrence strike and the association stuck. "Bread and roses" has also been attributed to socialist union organizer Rose Schneiderman.

Thank you for this piece of history.

is this what the song is about

Lady Meg Henderson yes

I'm 17, I'm french, I've first heard this song in "Pride": absolutely beautiful

It really was! The whole movie was beautiful, but this song specifically:) xx

iS THAT GREAT OR WHAT?

OTHER - NOT OTHRES!

Very, very beautiful! Does anyone know where there is a written music score of this version with the many different voices?

yes the version in Pride is just stunning

Makes the hairs on your neck stand on end."... we battle too for men, for they are women's children and we mother them again"

Lovely song!

Best version of this is now in the movie "Pride."

Yes Susan...absolutely

If the Pride version doesn't bring tears, your dead

Susan Balliet they left out one very important stanza.

Papa_Alan That's right. They left out the stanza with the lines "The rising of the women means the rising of the race". I hear this song sung by German Socialdemocrats and they feel well being a part of labour history. but they tend to omit the Idea of love and caring and mothering. There should not be a socialism without love. The idea of the poem is not merely to feed the people sufficiently but to make their life precious. The gap between rich and poor, men and women, old and young, can only be overcome by a constant thriving or longing for equality. We will stay different individuals, but we can move forward together as sympathetic human beings. In my opinion, the success of this song derives from the wakening of tender feelings within the harshness of life. There have been lots of revolutions by strong men and fierce fighters but only when men and women are marching side by side there will be a chance for mankind.

Eh not sure, works great for the movie but it's not something you can listen to by itself

The numerical reach of stupidity is curable by being kindly aware of it in love.

Stupidity cannot be cured. A low I.Q. is a low I.Q. is a low I.Q. Ignorance, however, can be cured by education, though not willful ignorance. The willfully ignorant are those are committed to their ignorance, because it serves their purposes to be ignorant.

... I mean, you're right, but I don't think that was the point. I think the point was that the EFFECTS of stupidity can be MITIGATED by resisting stupidity with awareness and compassion.

Bread and Roses
As we come 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 come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
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 come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing their ancient cry 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 come marching, marching, we bring the greater days.
The rising of the women means the rising of the race.
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!

The lyrics are based on a poem by James Oppenheim; the poem, as he wrote it, uses "As we come marching, marching". I have yet to hear a sung version where that wasn't changed to "As we go marching, marching".

ToddSF 94109 Also their ancient "call" for bread.

Anne Lythgoe Their ancient "call" for bread as Judy sings it.

thanks!

Anne Lythgoe i

One of Collins finest, especially when you know the background of this song.

YUP THAT IS WHAT THE WOMEN MOVEMENTS HAVE DONE IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY, USA, AND IN MANY OTHRES COUNTRIES. DURING WWII THE BRITSH WOMEN OF ALL AGES WORKED LONG HOURS IN FACTORIES TO HELP THE WAR EFFORT AGAINST THE NAZIS... AND THEY TOO SHOULD BE HONOURED ASWELL AS OUR WOMEN IN WWII.

GOD BLESS THEM ALL - THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED ON AND THOSE WHO ARE WITH US TODAY.
FYI I PUT MANY YOUTUBE VIDEOS ON MY MANY FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS.

ALEX FLEMING, WASH DC, USA. FEB 21, 2013

I was 17, I believe, when I first heard this song. I already liked JC, but then I saw her walk out on stage of Midnight Special and was transfigured by her presence. Absolutely beautiful. The 1:28 point, with the backup choir, inspires levitation. Thanks for uploading the liberating song. Seriously, it helped in large to create my politics and sensibilities.

Agreed! Bought this on vinyl back in the day!

Have my copy of this album on vinyl
to this day.