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Talking Union - The Almanac Singers
Now 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 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 a waiting till Judgment Day
We'll all be buried
Gone to heaven
St Peter will be the straw boss then
Now you know you're underpaid
But the boss says you ain't
He speeds up the work
Till you're about to faint
You may be down and out
But you ain't beaten
You can pass out a leaflet
And call a meeting
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 yaller streak a-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
And you're sitting pretty
Put some of the boys on the steering committee
The boss won't listen
When one guy squawks
But he's got to listen
When the union talks
He'd better
Be mighty lonely
Everybody decide to walk out on him
Suppose they're working you
So hard it's just outrageous
And they're paying you all starvation wages
You go to the boss
And the boss would yell
Before I raise your pay
I'd see you all in hell
Well he's puffing a big cigar
Feeling mighty slick
'Cause he thinks he's got your union licked
Well 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 wife
Now boys 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
They'll hit you on the head
They'll call every one of you a Goddam 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 stool pigeons 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
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