All You Fascists Bound to Lose

by Woody Guthrie

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Additional verses to All You Fascists Bound to Lose, by Windbourne,
by Tom Smith and Young at Heart Chorus

I heard Tom Smith singing in Burlington MA at one of the Thursday protests of the ICE facility there (Protests are held each week on Wednesdays and Thursdays and sometimes Saturdays). Tom sent me a copy of the words he uses. There are lots of other verses online.
You can find Tom at: https://www.tomsmithmusic.com/.

Your bigotry won’t stop us;
This one thing we know;
Immigrants belong here
And ICE has got to go!
You’re bound to lose,
You fascists bound to lose.

You fascists act like gangsters,
Like you’re above the law;
But murder in the streets,
Well, that’s the final straw!
You’re bound to lose,
You fascists bound to lose.

Race hatred will not break us;
You better learn this quick,
Our children won’t be sold
your poison rhetoric!
You’re bound to lose,
You fascists bound to lose.

Woody Guthrie singing Bound to Lose

Alternative words by Bette Midler

Hey there, all you fascists,
Let me set you straight,
When you come for the rest of us
We’ll fight you at the gate!
You bound to lose,
You fascists bound to lose!

We’ll battle ICE together
Until they cut and run
And like in Minneapolis
And when the midterms come
You bound to lose,
You fascists bound to lose.

CHORUS

The hell with all you cowards
Who hide behind their masks
We’re gonna win the midterms
We’re coming for his ass!
He knows it, too!
The bastard’s bound to lose.

Trying to distract us
From the Epstein files,
You gas and beat and murder us
Protecting pedophiles.
Let’s turn the screws,
You pervs are bound to lose!

CHORUS

America get ready,
Midterms are at hand;
We gotta stick together, folks:
And vote to save this land!
It’s time to choose!
Those fascists bound to lose!

CHORUS

I Ain’t Got No Home

by Woody Guthrie

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This isn’t a song that can be played by a band or sung by a chorus. It’s just a guitar and singer sort of thing. Not sure why I am including it except that I can’t very well leave it out, you know? There’s nothing more to say about this. It makes me cry every time. I’m hoping that I’m not abridging any copyrights…

I put this in D minor, and fairly high; that’s because it’s the way Woody Guthrie sings it. Women folk singers (American) tend to like to use the lower part of their voices and this key probably works for them, too, if they sing it an octave lower than what is written here. If I write it out that way, it looks stupid because I have to use so many ledger lines. Maybe I’ll transpose it to E-flat minor — but not today.

Here is Rosanne Cash, singing I Ain’t Got No home — A very different, but equally moving performance.