THE CRY AWOKE BALINTAWAK

(Introduction)
-TBD

Act scene:
People suffering:

Enough! Enough is enough!

I’ve seen it all (We’ve seen it) , I’ve heard our cries (We’ve heard it)
My fellow people, we shall rise!

Freedom! Freedom! Freedom!

(Stop and pause)
The cry awoke balintawak
And the echoes answered back
Freedom!

All four winds listened long

To the shrieking of that song

Every poet struck his lyre

With those notes of burning fire

All the women knelt to pray

In their hearts that frenzied lay

Even the children and the old

Took to arms and shouted bold

FREEDOM!

I heard it from the planters in the vales

I heard it from the traders tying bales.
I heard it where the fishers strike their sails
I heard it from the huskers neath the trees
I heard it from the divers of the seas
I heard it from the pounders in the leas

(People screaming)

All the people raised to cry!

Fearing not to bleed or die!
(Whispering)
All of the tombs of slave and sire
Broke to voice and great desire

(Song number)

Up the mountain, down the plain

Lounder, lounder rang the strain!

Freedom!

I heard it from the makers of the brooms

I heard it from the weavers at their looms
I heard it in the smoking smithy rooms
I heard it in the bullet’s whine that roars
I heard it in the farthest islet shore!

WE’VE HEARD IT AND WE SHALL HEAR IT EVER MORE

FREEDOM!

The cry of balintawak

AND NOW OUR VOICES ANSWER BACK

FREEDOM!!

Rip the paper that held us in chains

And scream freedom as we all reign!

FREEDOM
FREEDOM
FREEDOM!