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Rich_and_Dee March through Georgia - other lyrics to tune? (41) Lyr Add: THERE IS POWER IN A UNION (Billy Bragg) 03 Jun 02


Hi,

Here's the Billy Bragg song I referenced. It's interesting in the folk tradition how artists borrow song titles, even when they don't borrow the actual lyrics.

THERE IS POWER IN A UNION
(Billy Bragg)

There is power in a factory, power in the land
Power in the hand of the worker
But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand
There is power in a Union

Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers blood
The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for
From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud
War has always been the bosses way, sir

The Union forever defending our rights
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands
There is power in a Union

Now I long for the morning that they realise
Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us
But who'll defend the workers who cannot organise
When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us?

Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?
What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child
There is power in a Union

The Union forever defending our rights
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands
There is power in a Union


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