I have lived through bad times when winter came to take lives
Somehow we rode the storm, somehow I kept them warm
And I have lived with hunger to stop my children starving

And cried when death would call
Oh I have seen it all


I have heard men scheming of ways to set men fighting
Who'd kill on battle day, what for they could not say
And I have seen men rioting when pride had stopped their pleading

When shots rang out they'd fall
Oh I have seen it all


So don't tell me you're finished, for I live on inside you
And all those in your line - a chain as long as time
And we would not be broken, and we gave you this morning

So now you have the chance
Take it with both hands


And when at last you fall
Why, you have seen it all