UNION TRAIN
(Lee Hays/Almanac Singers, (c) People's Songs Inc., 1947.)

Oh, what is that I see yonder coming, coming, coming?
Oh, what is that I see yonder coming, coming, coming?
What is that I see yonder coming, coming, coming?
Get on board! Get on board!

It's that union train a-coming, coming, coming. (3x)
Get on board! Get on board!

It has saved a-many a thousand, thousand, thousand. (3x)
Get on board! Get on board!

It will carry us to freedom, freedom, freedom. (3x)
Get on board! Get on board!

What is that I see yonder coming, coming, coming? (3x)
Get on board! Get on board!

It's that union train a-coming, coming, coming. (3x)
Get on board! Get on board!

[Inspired by Southern Tenant Farmers Union organizing sharecroppers
and farm laborers in the cotton country of the Mississippi Delta.
Many of them were black workers who sang their childhood hymns at
union meetings. At a meeting in Memphis, after they had sung
"The Old Ship of Zion," a woman sang a new verse to the tune.
Later, Lee Hays added more verses and the "Union Train" began
to roll. - Paraphrase of note by Fowke and Glazer]

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