Hey friends and comrades!
In celebration of May Day (tomorrow!), Jake and the Infernal Machine are releasing a new song song, “Haymarket,” from our upcoming album. We hope to have the rest of the album ready at the end of the summer! Enjoy –
Lyrics
Four men swingin’ in the wind
Four men swingin’ in the wind
Hey Mama, did they do down to Haymarket?
Was that their only sin
They fought to bring us 8 hours
a general strike for 8 hours
but the state devours when it can win
bullets and batons are their power
“The Day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you throttle today.”
(August Spies)
They killed some workers at McCormick’s
so in their papers the anarchists
swore they’d tear the rich down from their high tower
they called at meeting at Haymarket
The mayor said all was quiet
police go home, there’ll be no riot
but Bonfield sent his men in to crack some skulls
dead bodies gathered there in piles
The called the rebels instigators
make raids now, look up laws later
hang one man for every hour
and make examples of the leaders
five men waiting on the gallows
five men waiting on the gallows
grave digger, dig them graves shallow
cause they’ll be rising up tomorrow
now there’s 4 men swingin in the wind
4 men swingin in the wind
only 2 were even down at Haymarket
its not the end, its the beginning
its not the end its the beginning.
its not the end its the beginning.
Remember we are the beginning.
(Extra verses)
Lucy went down to see her husband
one last time before they hung him
but they stripped her naked along with her child
and threw them both into the dungeon
Louis Lingg wouldn’t go quiet
hang man kill me if you’d try it
slipped a capsule between his teeth
and blew his skull into fragments
Jake Carman 