Solidarity Forever
(words: Ralph Chapin; tune: Battle Hymn of the Repubic)
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:
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
For 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 could
turn;
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when
we learn--
That the Union makes us strong!
(repeat chorus)
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!
(repeat chorus) |