Solidarity Forever

Song Solidarity Forever
Artist Utah Phillips
Album We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years

Lyrics

[00:25.600] When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
[00:30.600] There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;
[00:34.600] Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
[00:39.600] But the union makes us strong.
[00:44.600] Solidarity forever,
[00:50.600] Solidarity forever,
[00:55.600] Solidarity forever,
[00:58.600] For the union makes us strong.
[01:03.600] Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite,
[01:08.600] Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?
[01:12.600] Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?
[01:16.600] For the union makes us strong.
[01:21.600] Solidarity forever,
[01:27.600] Solidarity forever,
[01:31.600] Solidarity forever,
[01:35.600] For the union makes us strong.
[01:40.600] It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade;
[01:44.600] Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;
[01:49.600] Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made;
[01:53.600] But the union makes us strong.
[01:58.600] Solidarity forever,
[02:02.600] Solidarity forever,
[02:07.600] Solidarity forever,
[02:12.600] For the union makes us strong.
[02:16.600] All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone.
[02:21.600] We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone.
[02:25.600] It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own.
[02:30.600] While the union makes us strong.
[02:34.600] Solidarity forever,
[02:39.600] Solidarity forever,
[02:43.600] Solidarity forever,
[02:47.600] For the union makes us strong.
[02:53.600] They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
[02:57.600] But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
[03:02.600] We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
[03:06.600] That the union makes us strong.
[03:11.600] Solidarity forever,
[03:15.600] Solidarity forever,
[03:19.600] Solidarity forever,
[03:23.600] For the union makes us strong.
[03:28.600] In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
[03:33.600] Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
[03:38.600] We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
[03:41.600] For the union makes us strong.
[03:46.600] Solidarity forever,
[03:51.600] Solidarity forever,
[03:55.600] Solidarity forever,
[03:59.600] For the union makes us strong.