SOLIDARITY FOREVER

(Sung to the tune of John Brown's Body or The Battle Hym of the Republic)

When the unions' inspiration Through the worker's blood shall run
There can be no power greater Anywhere beneath the sun
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?
For the union makes us strong.

Solidarity forever Solidarity forever
Solidarity forever For the union makes us strong

It is we who plowed the prairies, built the cities where they trade
Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid
Now we stand outcast & starving, 'midst the wonders we have made
But the union makes us strong

They have taken untold millions, that they never toiled to earn
But without our brain and muscle, not a single wheel would turn
We can break their brutal power, gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong

In our hands is placed a power, greater than their hoarded gold
Greater than the might of armies magnified a thousandfold
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the Union makes us strong

Have we anything in common with the greedy parasite,
Who would lash us into bondage, who would crush us with his might -
Is there anything left to us but to organise and fight?
For the Union makes us strong!

All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone
We have laid the wide foundations, built it skywards, stone by stone,
It is ours not to toil in but to master and to own -
For the Union makes us strong!

Other Union Tunes:

Ludlow

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