STAND TOGETHER © 1996 Bernard Carney

Audio

    Chorus
    We will all stand together and sing a union song
    We will all stand together and know that we belong
    To the strength of the future
    In a common working bond
    Stand together and sing a union song

    There's trouble fast approaching
    And the skies are overcast
    But let us not lose sight of
    All the lessons of the past
    The victories that were fought for
    In battles loud and long
    By the millions who sang a union song

    United we will bargain
    But divided we will fall
    Injustice to the one will mean
    Injustice to us all
    But when we stand together
    The future will belong
    To the millions who sing a union song

    (optional May Day verse)

    It was on the first of May
    That I heard the union say
    Eight hours of decent working
    For eight hours of decent pay
    And we won't forget the reasons
    Why were marching here today
    With the millions who sing a union song

    Notes

    Many thanks to Bernard Carney for permission to use this song about which he writes:

    "The song was written in August 96 during the second wave of changes to the West Australian Industrial relations laws and has been sung at all the union rallies since. It's one of a series of songs written for the union campaign against the law changes and ended in the establishment of the Workers Embassy behind Parliament House in June 97 which exists today as Solidarity Park."

    Visit his Bernard's website at: http://bernardcarney.com/