Lyr Req: Union Label

Subject: Union Label
From: Friend of Thosp
Date: 23 Sep 99 - 04:20 PM

Can anybody help me get the lyrics to the International Ladies Garment Workers Union song, "Look for the Union Label"? Been to Digitrad & other sites. No luck.

Thanks

Subject: Lyr/Tune Add: UNION LABEL
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Sep 99 - 07:36 PM

UNION LABEL
(words by Paula Green, Music by Malcolm Dodds)
©1975, International Ladies' Garment Workers'Union

Look for the union label when you are buying a coat, dress or blouse.
Remember somewhere, our union's sewing, our wages going,
To feed the kids and run the house.
We work hard, but who's complaining,
Thanks to the I.L.G. we're paying our way.
So, always look for the union label,
It says we're able to make it in the U.S.A.

JRO

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Click to play

ABC format:

X:1
T:Union Label
M:2/2
Q:1/4=120
K:Bb
G4F4|-F2D2G2F2|D4B,4|-B,2B2c2B2|B2G4B2|c2B4G2|
F8|-F2F2G2F2|F4C4|-C2F2G2F2|F4B4|-B2B2c2B2|
G4c4|-c2c2d2c2|A6F2|A2G2F2E2|G4F4|-F2D2G2F2|
D4B,4|-B,2B2c2B2|B2G2G2B2|c2B4c2|d8|-d2d2e2d2|
d4G4|-G2c2d2c2|c4F4|-F2F2G2B2|e2e4d2|edede2d2|
B8|-B7/2||

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Union Label
From: Big Mick
Date: 23 Sep 99 - 10:08 PM

Dadgummit Joe, I can't even beat you to songs that are in my bailiwick. hahahahahahaha. You are just too fast for me.

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Union Label
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Sep 99 - 10:37 PM

But you can add some background information, can't you, Mick? The ILGWU was absorbed into another union, wasn't it? The song is too good to be lost - is it still being used?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Union Label
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 23 Sep 99 - 11:42 PM

Mick- You might also chck out "Horse With a Union Label".

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Union Label
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Sep 99 - 11:49 PM

Hey, I found another - DON'T FORGET THE UNION LABEL.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Union Label
From: Friend of Thosp
Date: 24 Sep 99 - 12:32 AM

Thanks, Joe. You are absolutely right. The song *is* too good to be lost. It was a real-life childhood introduction to what unionism was/is about for many baby-boomers in non-union families - and remembered fondly, if vaguely.