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I WHERE are you going, soldiers, | |
| With banners and drawn sword? | |
| We’re marching East to Palestine | |
| To battle for the Lord! | |
| What captain leads your bands | 5 |
| Along the sandy coasts? | |
| The Mighty One of Israel, | |
| His name is Lord of Hosts! | |
| To Palestine, to Palestine, | |
| The Lord will lead us through— | 10 |
| To blow before the heathen walls | |
| The trumpets of the Jew. | |
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II What flag is this you carry, | |
| In this your Holy War? | |
| The same our grandsires raised aloft, | 15 |
| The same our fathers bore. | |
| On many a battlefield, intact, | |
| It caught the crimson rain, | |
| For what was woven in God’s loom, | |
| No man can rend in twain. | 20 |
| To Palestine, to Palestine | |
| The Lord will lead us through, | |
| To plant upon its mountain-heights | |
| The standard of the Jew. | |
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III What song is this you’re singing? | 25 |
| The same that Israel sang | |
| When Moses led the mighty choir, | |
| And Miriam’s timbrel rang. | |
| “To Palestine, to Palestine!” | |
| Both young and old have cried; | 30 |
| “To Palestine, to Palestine”— | |
| The people’s voice replied. | |
| To Palestine, to Palestine, | |
| The Lord will lead us through | |
| To thunder in the usurper’s ear | 35 |
| The anthem of the Jew. | |
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IV When Salem’s foes are scattered | |
| And all the path lies free, | |
| What follows next in order? | |
| Our God to that will see. | 40 |
| He’ll break the tyrant’s sceptre, | |
| He’ll build the people’s throne— | |
| When half the world is Freedom’s, | |
| Then all the world’s our own. | |
| To Palestine, to Palestine, | 45 |
| The Lord will lead us through. | |
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