Hör maskinernas sång (Hear the song of the machines) is a classic communist song in Swedish by the band Knutna Nävar (Clenched Fists). It's a workers song that celebrates factories, industries and the people working in them, as well as calling them and I think it's quite beautiful.

What I didn't know before is that the music for this song actually is composed by Buffy Sainte-Marie - it's her song He Lived Alone in Town that Knutna Nävar has put new lyrics to. This is something I found out randomly while listening to Sainte-Marie's album It's My Way!, where the song Universal Soldier also can be found. I haven't seen anyone online write about the connection between these two songs, but it's a funny piece of trivia.

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00:00 Verse 1
00:19 Verse 2
00:34 Chorus 1
00:50 Verse 3
01:06 Verse 4
01:21 Chorus 2