โหลดเพลง mp3 Talking Union - Pete Seeger

If you want higher wages
Let me tell you what to do
You got to talk to the workers
In the shop with you
You got to build you
A union got to make it strong
But if you all stick
Together boys it won't be long
You'll get shorter hours

Better working conditions vacations with pay
Take your kids to the seashore

It ain't quite this simple
So I better explain
Just why you got to ride on the union train
'Cause if you wait for the boss
To raise your pay
We'll all be waiting till Judgment Day
We'll all he buried gone to Heaven

Saint Peter'll be the straw boss then

Now you know you're underpaid
Hut the boss says you ain't
He speeds up the work till you're 'bout to faint
You may he down and out but you ain't beaten
Pass out a leaflet and call a meetin'
Talk it over speak your mind

Decide to do something about it

'Course the boss may persuade
Some poor damn fool
To go to your meeting and act like a stool
But you can always tell
A stool though that's a fact
He's got a yellow streak
Running down his back
He doesn't have to stool

He'll always get along

On what he takes out of blind men's cups

You got a union now you're sitting pretty
Put some of the boys on the steering committee

The boss won't listen when one man squawks
But he's got to listen
When the union talks he better

He'll be mighty lonely

Everybody decide to walk out on him

Suppose they're working you
So hard it's just outrageous

They're paying you all starvation wages
You go to the boss and the boss would yell
Before I'd raise your pay
I'd see you all in Hell
Well he's puffing a big seegar
And feeling mighty slick
He thinks he's got your union licked

He looks out the window

And what does he see
But a thousand pickets and they all agree
He's a bastard unfair slave driver

Bet he beats his own wife

Now boy you've come to the hardest time
The boss will try to bust your picket line
He'll call out the police the National Guard
They'll tell you it's a crime
To have a union card
They'll raid your meeting hit you on the head
Call every one of you a goddamn Red
Unpatriotic Japanese spies sabotaging national defense

But out at Ford here's what they found
And out at Vultee here's what they found
And out at Allis Chalmers
Here's what they found
And down at Bethlehem here's what they found
That if you don't let red baiting break you up
And if you don't let stoolpigeons break you up
And if you don't let vigilantes break you up
And if you don't let race hatred break you up
You'll win
What I mean take it easy but take it