DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?

By Caloy Bueno
October 12, 2017

Recently, the opposition (LPs, etc.) adopted the "Hunger Games" salute to dramatize their cause against the administration of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte.

The Duterte supporters can play the same game. The song, "Do You Hear the People Sing?" from Les Miserables (2012) is evocative of the cause of the ordinary people who are tired of the depredations of oligarchic rule...

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!

When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
when tomorrow comes!

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade is there a
world you long to see?

Then join in the fight that will give you
the right to be free!
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men

It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums

There is a life about to start
when tomorrow comes!
Will you give all you can give
so that our banner may advance?

Some will fall and some will live.
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs will water
the meadows of France!

Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!

When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
when tomorrow comes!

(Les Miserables, 2012)

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