There is power in a union

There is power in a union (video)

intro = verse 1

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1. There is power in a factory, power in the land,

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power in the hand of the worker.

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But it all amounts to nothing, if together we don't stand,

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there is power in a Union.

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2. Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers blood,

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the mistakes of the bosses we must pay for.

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From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud,

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war has always been the bosses way, sir.

The Union forever defending our rights,

down with the blackleg, all workers unite !

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With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands

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there is power in a Union.

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3. Now, I long for the morning that they realise,

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brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us.

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But who'll defend the workers who cannot organise,

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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?

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What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child,

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there is power in a Union.

+ instrumental = repeat the last 4 lines

The Union forever defending our rights,

down with the blackleg, all workers unite !

G C

With our brothers and our sister together we will stand,

G D G

there is power in a Union.

(Billy Bragg)