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PAINT 'ER RED! Come with us you workingmen and join the rebel band Come you discontented ones and lend a helping hand We march against the parasite to drive him from the land With One Big Industrial Union cho: Hurrah! hurrah! we're gonna paint 'er red! Hurrah! hurrah! The way is clear ahead! We're gaining shop democracy and liberty and bread With One Big Industrial Union. In factory and field and mine we gather in our might We're on the job and know the way to win our hardest fight For the beacon that shall guide us out of darkness into light Is One Big Industrial Union. Come on you fellows, get in line, we'll fill the boss with fears Red's the colour of our flag, it's stained with blood and tears, We'll flout it in his ugly mug and raise our loudest cheers For One Big Industrial Union. "Slaves", they call us, "working plugs", inferior by birth But when we hit their pocketbooks, we'll spoil their smiles of mirth We'll stop their dirty dividends and drive them from the earth With One Big Industrial Union. We hate their rotten system more than any mortals do Our aim is not to patch it up but build it all anew And what we'll have for government when finally we're through Is One Big Industrial Union. - by Ralph Chaplin, 1914 (he made Solidarity Forever, too). There was also another (tamer) song to the tune, which appeared regularly in each edition of the Little Red Songbook, called "One Big Industrial Union", made by G.C. Allen, but the Chap[lin version, though I think never published in the songbook, was the more popular. It was used by the prosection in several Wobbly sedition trials to prove the IWW's revolutionary intent. JB @political @IWW filename[ PAINTRED TUNE FILE: MRCHGRGA CLICK TO PLAY JB Feb07 |
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