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When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run, |
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There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun; |
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Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one, |
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But the union makes us strong. |
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CHORUS: |
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Solidarity forever, |
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Solidarity forever, |
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Solidarity forever, |
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For the union makes us strong. |
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Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite, |
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Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might? |
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Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight? |
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For the union makes us strong. |
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It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade; |
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Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid; |
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Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made; |
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But the union makes us strong. |
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All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone. |
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We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone. |
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It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own. |
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While the union makes us strong. |
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They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn, |
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But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn. |
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We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn |
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That the union makes us strong. |
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In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold, |
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Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold. |
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We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old |
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For the union makes us strong. |
