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Thread #18151   Message #178672
Posted By: GUEST,Barry Finn
15-Feb-00 - 08:43 AM
Thread Name: Union Songs for Modern Singers
Subject: Lyr Add: UNION WORKER, UNION BOSS^^
I always like to throw this in when things start because to seem as if the Unions are looked upon as the working man's gift from God. My personnal dealings (working within one) after many years & my first hand knowledge of how corrupt SOME are may not sit well with most but it's there behind some closed doors that never get opened.

"UNION WORKER, UNION BOSS"
Tune; King Cotton, Traditional
Words by Barry Finn

Who'll protect you from the Union
Who'll protect you from the boss
who will care for your wages
Who will see that your job's not lost

Will you walk the line when the agent says picket
Will you fight with scabs and carry signs
Will you share in the payoff to end the protest
Will you close your eyes to the sight of crime

Where do you stand on graft and corruption
When the shop steward's a thug tell me how do you feel
When you can't find work if you can't do favors
Where will you turn to find your next meal

Does your voice start to freeze in the face of extortion
Does embezzlement seem like a white collar crime
When do you sweat from your organized labor
Do you fear that you feel like it's organized crime

Now it's the boss and the laborer who fear the Unions
One gives their blood and one gives their bone
A job begged for mercy now it cries murder
Will you be fit to work when the job's all done

Barry Finn