Stand Up! --

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Stand up, but not for Jesus!It's a little late for that.Stand up for justice and a jolly life.I'll hold your hat.

Stand up, stand up for justice,ye swindled little blokes!Stand up and do some punching,give 'em a few hard pokes.

Stand up for jolly justiceyou haven't got much to lose:a job you don't like and a scanty chancefor a dreary little booze.

Stand up for something different,and have a little funfighting for something worth fighting forbefore you've done.

Stand up for a new arrangementfor a chance of life all round,for freedom, and the fun of livingbust in, and hold the ground!

© David Herbert Lawrence