Talk:Red fly the banners o

These are the words I am familiar with The lyrics have been removed from this article.

[Chorus 1] I’ll sing you one oh Red fly the banners oh What is your one oh? One is workers’ unity And ever more shall be so [Chorus 2] I’ll sing you two oh Red fly the banners oh What is your two oh? Two, two the worker’s hands Working for a living oh One is workers’ unity

And so on adding one each time:

Three, three, the rights of man Four for the four great teachers [Marx Engel Lenin Trotsky] Five for years of the socialist plan Six for the Tolpuddle Martyrs Seven for the hours of the working day Eight for the eighth route army<P> Nine for the days of the general strike<P> Ten for the days that shook the world<P> Eleven for the Moscow Dynamos<P> Twelve for the Moscow Dynamo Reserves<P>

The first is fairly straightforward. Workers' unity is the priority for socialists.<P> The three rights of man are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (alternatively bread, land and peace)<P> Some would put Stalin in place of Trotsky in this. Also they would put "Four for the years it took them." to refer to the five year plan.<P> The Tolpuddle Martyrs were imprisoned for organising a trade union.<P> The campaign for the seven hour working day radicalised workers in the nineteenth century.<P> The eighth route army was the Chinese Red Army<P> The general strike lasted for nine days. The government could not defeat it. The workers' own leaders however could.<P> "Ten Days that shook the world" is an account of the Russian Revolution by John Reid

Terryteacher (talk) 07:55, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Main article is dubious!
Both the 'Stalinist' and 'Trotskyist' versions shown contain lyrics like '7 for the days of the 5 day week' which make no sense to me.

And clearly no one would sing "Seven for the stars on the Connolly's flag,"

I know a couple of versions of the song, and the one in the previous talk section is close to what I recall.

I could edit main page but I don't want to offend the author - the versions quoted may be as he heard or recalled them.

Correcting recorded oral tradition just seems wrong!

Selimap (talk) 19:10, 11 January 2013 (UTC)