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The Wheel of Fortune (ZS Version)

New Lyrics by Zack Schofield, Original by John Tams

A grimmer, more modern version of Rolling Home

LYRICS

00:00 / 01:04

CHORUS

Rolling home

When we go rolling home

When we go rolling, rolling

When we go rolling home.


Round goes the wheel of fortune, no justice in its ride
But there’s a land of milk and honey waits on the other side
There’ll be peace and there’ll be plenty, for those without a throne,
When we go rolling home, when we go rolling home


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The bombs and bullets flying high pierce more than noble hearts,
Each child lost to conquest, rips humankind apart
If blind to blood and horror, we’ll reap what we have sown,
When we go rolling home, when we go rolling home


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Each one of us a duty, to neighbours cross the sea,
Each soul cries for salvation, till all of us are free,
Stand up and stand together, and you'll never stand alone,
When we go rolling home, when we go rolling home


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Pin your courage to the post and take your place in history,
Here’s a health to bold resistance, wherever it may be
The fire in your blood will transcend the flesh and bone,
When we go rolling home, when we go rolling home


CHORUS x 2

Tags:

War, Lyrics Re-Write, Modern, Protest Song, Death, Few Words/Easy to learn

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We acknowledge the Gadigal and Bidjigal people of the Eora nation, upon whose lands we gather and sing.
We acknowledge sovereignty was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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Numerous photos by Nick Ryden 

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