SOLIDARITY FOREVER
(Air: "John Brown's Body")
When the Union's inspiration
Through the Workers' 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?
But the Union makes us strong.
CHORUS
Solidarty forever!
Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
For the Union makes us strong.
Is there aught we hold in common
With the greedy parasite,
Who would lash us into serfdom
And would crush us with his might?
Is there anything left for us
But to organize and fight?
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 and starving
'Mid the wonders we have made;
But the Union makes us strong!
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