All you fonies (2022) (video)

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1. Come all you friends and workers, a tale I’ll tell to you

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of how we built our union you call the NMU.

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1. We fought the goons and gun thugs

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around the ocean shores

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I guess I got my head caved in a dozen times or more.

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All you fonies (bound to lose), all you fonies (bound to lose),

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all you fonies (bound to lose, lose, lose) !

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1. You had a phony set up,

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you called the SIU,

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we had a ratty ship and a crummy bunk

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with roaches in our stew.

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4. We fought against the weather,

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and the stooges, too,

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to win a clean bunk and mess hall

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for newly-comes like you.

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All you fonies (bound to lose), all you fonies (bound to lose),

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all you fonies (bound to lose, lose, lose) !

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+ All you fonies (bound to lose, lose, lose) !

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+ For me to try to change this whole big mess around by myself,

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I wouldn’t last longer than a snowball in hell.

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But there’s a hundred thousand of me now

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and we fought like hell to get here,

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so you fight like hell to keep what we shed blood to earn.

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+ For eight hours a day (and overtime pay)

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we battled it out with you big shot men.

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We’ve seen times that looked pretty dark

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until we brought the union in.

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All you fonies (bound to lose), all you fonies (bound to lose),

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all you fonies (bound to lose, lose, lose) !

+ repeat CHORUS

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+ All you fonies (bound to lose, lose, lose) ! (2x)

(orig. = capo 1st) (Dropkick Murphys)