Author: Vicki Ryder
Tune: Battle Hymn of the Republic

We’re rising in Seattle now and joining the campaign,
A task that wasn’t finished when Rev’rend King was slain.
Fifty years have come and gone but still his words ring true:
How’s the war economy workin’ out for you?

CHORUS:
We are marching in the Poor People’s Campaign,
With voices loud and fists raised high till there are no more chains.
And we’ll keep marching forward, and we won’t go back again!
Together we are strong!

They tell us there’s no money now for jobs or health care plans,
There’s always lots of money for their wars in far off lands.
They spend it all for war, and not for schools or homes, that’s true.
How’s the war economy workin’ out for you?

They spent three trillion dollars when they sent our kids to war.
Not all our kids, ya know, but just the brown, the black, the poor.
They had no hope of finding jobs in good ole USA.
How’s the war economy workin’ for them today?

CHORUS:
We are marching in the Poor People’s Campaign,
With voices loud and fists raised high till there are no more chains.
And we’ll keep marching forward, and we won’t go back again!
Together we are strong!