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While the richest children become fat

The poorest children die of hunger

and although they say that we are alike,

it is always they who are right.

They say we are sitting in the same boat

both the officer and the sailors.

But how I then try and carry myself

so it's always I who row.

So it is always I who row.

If freedom for the lame one

is to walk precisely where he wants,

and if the silent can be emperor

if he only says so,

yes, then is the shoemaker's boy freedom

to stay by his father's trade

and it is freedom for the poor

that they can buy what they want.

That they can buy what they want.

They say we belong together,

that we are all brothers,

that we will learn to live with each other.

But when the times become scarce

and you will try it like a bond,

then all talk about brotherhood ends

and you take what you can.