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“If We Must Die” by Claude McKay

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1 “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay

2 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 accursèd lot. 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! 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!

3 Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1961

4 If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot

5 While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot.

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7 If we must die, O let us nobly die,

8 So that our precious blood may not be shed in vain then even the monsters we defy

9 Shall be constrained to honor us though dead. O, kinsmen
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O, kinsmen! We must meet the common foe

10 Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,

11 And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!

12 What though before us lies the open grave
What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack

13 Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

14 Presented by Kimberly Guy Clara Billups Derrick Kimbrough Angela Jones


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