Justiça para todos

Esta canção de Pete Seeger, com a música de uma canção popular americana "My Bonnie is over the Ocean", tem uma letra simples, mas carregada de força e verdade. Refere a necessidade de se lutar com todas as armas que temos nas mãos para que a segurança social e a justiça sejam as prioridades da atualidade em Portugal e em todo o Mundo.

My children are seven in number

"My children are seven in number
We have to sleep four in a bed
I'm striking with my fellow workers
To get them more clothes and more bread

Chorus:
Shoes, shoes we are striking for pairs of shoes

Pellagra is cramping my stomach
My wife is sick with TD
My babies are starving for sweet milk
Oh there's so much sickness for me

Chorus:
Milk, milk we're striking for gallons of milk

I'm needing a shave and a haircut
But barbers I cannot afford
My wife cannot wash with soapsuds
And she had to borrow a board

Chorus:
Soap, soap we're striking for bars of soap

My house is a shack on the hillside
Its floors are unpainted and bare
I have n't a screen to my windows
And carbide cans do do for a chair

Chorus:
Homes, homes we're striking for better homes

They shot Barney Graham our leader
His spirit abides with us still
The spirit of strength for justice
No bullets have power to kill

Chorus:
Barney, Barney we're thinking of you today

Oh miners go on with the Union
Oh miners go on with the fight
For we're in the struggle for justice
And we're in the struggle for right

Chorus:
Justice, justice we're striking for justice for all."


...E são as necessidades básicas que começam a escassear numa grande parte das famílias portuguesas...