OH COME ALL YE FAITHFUL
OH COME ALL YE FAITHFUL
SUPPORTERS OF JULIAN
LIFT UP YOUR BANNERS HIGH
FOR HIM TO BE FREED
SHOUT TO THE MEDIA
DENY THIS EXTRADITION
A FREE PRESS IS VITAL
TO JOIN US IS ESSENTIAL
SO SING THE PRAISES FOR HIM
ASSANGE MUST BE FREE
REMANDED THOUGH HE’S BLAMELESS
NO CRIME HAS HE COMMITED
YET HERE THEY’VE IMPRISONED HIM
IN BRUTAL BELMARSH
PATENTLY POLITICAL
A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE
JOE BIDEN CANNOT WIN
AND JOHNSON MUST BE THWARTED,
M’LORDS MADE THEIR DECISION
BUT ASSANGE MUST BE FREED
AWAY IN A PRISON
Words by Lizzie Shirley and Myra Sands SUNG TO ‘AWAY IN A MANGER”
AWAY IN A PRISON
ASSANGE IS LAID LOW,
HIS ONE AND ONLY CRIME WAS
FOR THE TRUTH TO BE SHOWN.
FOR THE US ECONOMY
THE ARMS TRADE IS A MUST
AND IF WARS CANNOT HAPPEN
THE USA WILL GO BUST.
ASSANGE EXPOSED WAR CRIMES,
FOR THAT HE MUST PAY,
BUT THERE NEVER IS A FAIR TRIAL
IN THE GOOD OLD USA.
SEVEN YEARS IN AN EMBASSY
WITH NO JUSTICE NO PEACE,
RIDICULED, SMEARED AND HOUNDED
BY THE RICH AND THE MIGHTY
HIS AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT
JUST COULD NOT CARE LESS
ITS SUBSERVIENCE TO THE US
HAS COMPOUNDED THIS MESS
THOUGH TORTURE IS ILLEGAL
HE’S HAD TEN WRETCHED YEARS
IT’S A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE
AND CONFIRMS OUR WORST FEARS
WHISTLEBLOWERS WE SHOULD WELCOME,
THEY COULD WELL SAVE THE WORLD
FROM DESTRUCTION AND CHAOS
AND GRIM WARS UNTOLD.
RECENT CLAMPDOWNS ON JOURNALISTS
STOP US LEARNING WHAT’S TRUE
WE MUST FIGHT CANCEL CULTURE
LIBERATE ASSANGE TOO
What a wonderful way to tell Julian’s story. Like our “judge” with the megaphone outside the Law Courts in October said (to paraphrase): No blasphemy intended, but they’re crucifying him as they did Jesus.