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If you want higher wages, let me tell you what to do; |
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You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you; |
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You got to build you a union, got to make it strong, |
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But if you all stick together, now, ‘twont he long. |
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You'll get shorter hours, |
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Better working conditions. |
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Vacations with pay, |
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Take your kids to the seashore. |
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It ain't quite this simple, so I better explain |
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Just why you got to ride on the union train; |
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‘Cause if you wait for the boss to raise your pay, We'll all be waiting till Judgment Day; |
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We'll all he buried - gone to Heaven - |
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Saint Peter'll be the straw boss then. |
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Now, you know you're underpaid, hut the boss says you ain't; |
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He speeds up the work till you're ‘bout to faint, |
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You may he down and out, but you ain't beaten, |
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Pass out a leaflet and call a meetin' |
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Talk it over - speak your mind - |
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Decide to do something about it. |
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‘Course, the boss may persuade some poor damn fool To go to your meeting and act like a stool; |
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But you can always tell a stool, though - that's a fact; |
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He's got a yellow streak running down his back; |
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He doesn't have to stool - he'll always make a good living |
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On what he takes out of blind men's cups. |
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You got a union now; you're sitting pretty; |
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Put some of the boys on the steering committee. |
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The boss won't listen when one man squawks. |
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But he's got to listen when the union talks. |
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He better - |
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He'll be mighty lonely one of these days. |
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Suppose they're working you so hard it's just outrageous, |
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They're paying you all starvation wages; |
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You go to the boss, and the boss would yell, |
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"Before I'd raise your pay I'd see you all in Hell." Well, he's puffing a big see-gar and feeling mighty slick, |
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He thinks he's got your union licked. |
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He looks out the window, and what does he see |
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But a thousand pickets, and they all agree |
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He's a bastard - unfair - slave driver - |
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Bet he beats his own wife. |
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Now, boy, you've come to the hardest time; |
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The boss will try to bust your picket line. |
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He'll call out the police, the National Guard; |
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They'll tell you it's a crime to have a union card. |
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They'll raid your meeting, hit you on the head. |
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Call every one of you a goddamn Red - |
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Unpatriotic - Moscow agents - |
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Bomb throwers, even the kids. |
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But out in Detroit here's what they found, |
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And out in Frisco here's what they found, |
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And out in Pittsburgh here's what they found, |
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And down in Bethlehem here's what they found, |
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That if you don't let Red-baiting break you up, |
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If you don't let stool pigeons break you up, |
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If you don't let vigilantes break you up, |
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And if you don't let race hatred break you up - |
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You'll win. What I mean, |
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Take it easy - but take it! |
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