Cable Street The Young'uns

[Verse 1]
On the fourth of October, nineteen thirty-six
I was only a lad of sixteen
But I stood beside men who were threescore and ten
And every age in between
We were dockers and teachers, busmen, engineers
And those with no jobs to do
We were women and children equal in union
Atheists, Christians, and Jews
And we had so much to lose

[Verse 2]
For with Hitler in Germany, Franco in Spain
We knew what fascism meant
So when Mosley came trouncing, denouncing the Jews
To the East End of London we went
For I’d met refugees who had fled o'er the seas
Germans, Italians, and Jews
And I knew their despair for what they’d seen there
And I couldn’t let them be abused
We had so much to lose

[Verse 3]
Now three thousand fascists, their uniforms black
Had set out to march on that day
And six thousand policemen intended to greet them
By making clear the way
But we were there ready, our nerves they were steady
One hundred thousand en masse
And we planted our feet along Cable Street
And we sang, "they shall not pass!"
We sang, "they shall not pass!"