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Solidarity Forever || Pete Seeger















When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run 
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun 
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one 
For the Union makes us strong
Chorus 
Solidarity forever, solidarity forever 
Solidarity forever 
For the Union makes us strong
Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite  
Who would lash us into serfdom and would 
crush us with his might?   
Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?   
For the union makes us strong
It is we who ploughed the prairies, built the cities where they trade 
Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid 
Now we stand outcast and starving 'mid the wonders we have made 
But the union makes us strong 
All the world  that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone  
We have laid the wide foundations, built it skyward stone by stone  
It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own   
While the union makes us strong
They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn 
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn 
We can break their haughty power gain our freedom when we learn 
That the Union makes us strong
 In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold 
Greater than the might of armies magnified a thousandfold 
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old 
For the Union makes us strong

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