Solidarity Forever

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Verse 1

Back 1

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

For the union makes us strong

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Verse 2

Back 2

Is there aught we hold in common

With the greedy parasite

Who would lash us into serfdom

And crush us with his might

Is there anything left for us to do

But organise and fight

For the union makes us strong

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Verse 3

Back 3

It is we who plough 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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Verse 4

Back 4

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 and not to slave in

But to master and to own

While the union makes us strong

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Verse 5

Back 5

They have taken untold millions

That they never toiled to earn

But without our brain and muscle

Not a single wheel can turn

We can break their haughty power

Gain our freedom when we learn

That the union makes us strong

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Verse 6

Back 6

On 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.

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Verse 7 Women

Back 7

We're the women of the union

In the forefront of the fight

We will fight for women's issues

And we'll fight for women's rights

A woman's work is never done

From morning until night

Women make the union strong!

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Verse 8

Back 8

It is we who wash the dishes

Scrub the floors and clean the dirt

Feed the kids and send them off to school

And then we go to work.

Where we work for half men's wages

For a boss who likes to flirt

But the union makes us strong.