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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,
But 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 plowed 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 midst
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 thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the
ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong.
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