[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE]
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To the Windward Isles
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS]
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It comes today
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE]
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The wind of change blows this way
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS]
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Blows this way
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE]
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In Sante Domingo and elsewhere
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To slaves of sugar and despair
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS]
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Silver, sugar, indigo
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Silver, sugar, indigo
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Silver, sugar, indigo
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Silver, sugar, indigo
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Silver, sugar, indigo
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Silver, sugar, indigo
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Silver, sugar, indigo
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Silver, sugar, indigo
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Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
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Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE]
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Bring freedom to the
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS]
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Colonies
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Act on principle
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE]
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Equality, fraternity and
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS]
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Liberty
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE]
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Are
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS]
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Not just words after all
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE]
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But
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS]
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Sugar is sweet
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE]
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And
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS]
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Coffee is strong
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Hope goes down with the sun
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE]
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And
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS]
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The sun goes down behind
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[CONDORCET & MARIE MARIANNE]
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Mountains of silver
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Valleys of sugar
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And shiploads of indigo
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Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
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[REVOLUTIONARY SLAVE & CHORUS]
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Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
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[MARIE MARIANNE]
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So come ye ships
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Across the sea
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Let's case into the deep
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This shame and misery
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In Paris they condemn our rage
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Condorcet stands his ground and says:
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[CONDORCET]
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My friends if we believe in freedom
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Then we must unlock this cage
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[COMPANY]
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Vive Condorcet, hear him scold them,
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The frigid reactionary old men
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Good God above it's over
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Enough is enough
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Enough, enough, enough
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To the Windward Isles
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Revolution has arrived
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They will only free us when
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They need us to fight for them
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[CONDORCET & MARIE MARIANNE]
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Cast into the deep sea
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This shame and this misery
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Silver, sugar and indigo
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Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
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[CHORUS]
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Make even the wisest man "idiot!"
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[COMPANY]
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"Idiot!"
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To The Windward Isles
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Roger Waters |