Let us get up, men and women to chase a shilling
Let us get up, men and women to work for a shilling
Let us get up, men and women to work hard,
Let us get up, men and women to work hard for our daily bread.
How are we going to get our daily bread?
We get our bread with a shilling.
Let us look into the field today, and see what a shilling has done.
A shilling has placed others to be Heads of States,
Others to be big above their friends, others to possess big houses,
Others, fine clothes, others sweet foods, and others degrees in Education.
Others become engineers, others doctors and others economists.
So brothers and sisters, let us get up and work hard for a shilling.
See! today, a shilling has sent others to prison,
Women to run away from their husbands,
Women to run away from their parents,
Fathers to run away from their children,
Just in need of a shilling.
The poem continues for many more verses.