[00:00.000] 作曲 : David Stefan Rovics[00:10.753]The famine had affected many people[00:13.361]From Ireland to the shores of the Baltic Sea[00:16.058]The soaring cost of food meant it took most of your earnings[00:18.783]Which meant the shutting down of much of industry[00:21.340]But no one knows for sure why the rebellion began[00:24.060]Or why it quickly spread from state to state[00:26.496]When in the mountains and the plains, from Galway to Ukraine[00:29.299]Came the Rising of 1848[00:32.630]1848[00:37.461]A pitchfork guess no match for a rifle[00:39.961]But there's nothing that will give the king a fright[00:42.721]As when he looks out of the window[00:45.493]And sees his castle burning in the night[00:48.049]But that's what happened in fifty different countries[00:50.605]Where the landlords oft encountered such a fate[00:53.457]From Budapest to Sicily life would never be the same[00:55.747]After the Rising of 1848[00:58.020]1848[01:03.954]Marx and Engels wrote a book which spread as quickly as the flames[01:06.613]From which the feudal barons had to flee[01:09.190]From the workers in the cities, from the peasants in the towns[01:12.109]And even from the petit bourgeoisie[01:14.798]United for a time by a common sense of purpose[01:17.196]To finally throw off the crushing weight of the dynastic rule of hereditary Lords[01:22.786]Who owned the Europe of 1848[01:28.003]1848[01:31.067]Tens of thousands died before it all was over[01:33.466]And some say it all ended in defeat[01:35.831]But the landscape was transformed when serfdom was abolished[01:38.776]Which is why we don't see history repeat[01:41.278]And the monarchs remembered when peasants with pitchforks[01:44.204]Came to burn down their estate[01:46.765]And most of them decided democracy was better[01:49.257]Than the Rising of 1848