wow - finally my youth listening to old Union songs comes in handy!

I heard this version of the song as a child in the early 1970's about ten to twelve years after a very ugly Unionization effort in an Adirondack Paper Mill. That organizing effort was eventually successful but noit until after a 2 year strike held during which shots were fired on the picket lines.



There's a man goin' round taking names
There's a man goin' round taken names
You could be his father or his brother, to him it's just the same
there's a man goin' round taking names

There's a man goin' round taking names
There's a man goin' round taken names
gonna take his list to the boss's house up the lane
there's a man goin' round takin' names



There are a bunch more verses about the man taking names, who is a local man turned on his own people and kin by the owner/boss trying to break the union. I just don't remember them off the top of my head. I may have them written down somewhere.