Charlie Chaplin‘s iconic speech from The Great Dictator gets the melodysheep treatment.

mp3: Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 anti-fascist speech from The Great Dictator, as a song. Subscribe for more like this!

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Sources used:

The Great Dictator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH3zh2XHGVE&hd=1

WWII in HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqMlo51U_KQ

The Greatest Speech Ever Made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo

Lyrics:

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor, that’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible – Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich, and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls

Has barricaded the world with hate

We think too much and feel too little

More than machinery, we need humanity

More than cleverness, we need kindness

Without these qualities life would be violent

And all would be lost

Do not despair

The hate of men will pass

And dictators die

And the power they took from the people

Will return to the people

Let us all unite!

Let us fight for a new world

To do away with greed

Now let us fight to free the world

To fulfill that promise

Let us all unite!

Soldiers, don’t give yourselves to brutes

Men who despise you enslave you

Tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel

Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle

Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men

Machine men with machine minds and machine hearts

You are not machines

You are men

You the people have the power

To make this life free and beautiful

Let us use that power

To make this life a wonderful adventure

Let us all unite!

Let us fight for a new world

To do away with greed

Now let us fight to free the world

To fulfill that promise

Let us all unite!

Let us fight for a new world

To do away with greed

A world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness

Do not despair

The hate of men will pass

And dictators die

And the power they took from the people

Will return to the people

Let us all unite!