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This is an Official IRA song, called The Army of the People. We rewrote it to be about the New People’s Army (NPA) in the Philippines.

Like the heroic struggle of the Irish people against hundreds of years of English rule, the Philippine struggle for liberation against US imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat-capitalism continues today (learn more here). The civil war in the Philippines is a war against foreign domination, exploitation, poverty, and suffering.

The NPA is the army of the Filipino people in their war against the US and its puppets. And because we love the people and hate their enemies, we cherish the NPA!

Chords

Verse 1 G C In service of working people and peasants who till by hand, G D To fight and die until they drive the US from their lands. G C Young and old, side by side, fighting day by day, G C D G They are the Army of the People, the courageous NPA. Verse 2 G C They are there as history’s taught them the errors of the past, G D They know that freedom doesn’t mean rule by a puppet class. G C Bureaucrats call them traitors, and at every chance they betray G C D G The Army of the People, the righteous NPA. Verse 3 G C They can win the people’s war, end bigotry and greed. G D The struggle is a worker’s one, so every man might lead, G C A life that is his own, in a land where he can say: G C D G ”Up the Army of the People, our cherished NPA!” Verse 4 G C Beware the risen people, who know they’re gonna win, G D National democracy will lead us on ‘till then, G C And if you want a Philippines that’s socialist and unchained, G C D G Join the Army of the People, the glorious NPA! G C D G Join the Army of the People, the glorious NPA!