Talking Union-Pete Seeger

[ti:Talking Union] [ar:Pete Seeger] [al:Which Side Are You On] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Union - Pete Seeger [00:02.76]Written by：L. Hays/M. Lampell/P. Seeger [00:05.53]Now if you want higher wages let me tell you what to do [00:07.82]You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you [00:10.12]You got to build you a union got to make it strong [00:12.42]But if you all stick together boys it won't be long [00:14.81]You get shorter hours better working conditions [00:18.78] [00:20.50]Vacations with pay take your kids to the seashore [00:22.47] [00:24.13]It ain't quite this simple so I better explain [00:26.38]Just why you got to ride on the union train [00:28.63]'Cause if you wait for the boss to raise your pay [00:31.16]We'll all be a waitin' till judgment day [00:33.21]We'll all be buried gone to heaven [00:36.52] [00:38.31]St peter'll be the straw boss then [00:40.02] [00:42.67]Now you know you're underpaid but the boss says you ain't [00:44.98]He speeds up the work 'til you're 'bout to faint [00:47.06]You may be down and out but you ain't beaten [00:49.17]You can pass out a leaflet and call a meetin' [00:51.43]Talk it over speak your mind [00:54.85] [00:56.60]Decide to do somethin' about it [00:58.24] [01:00.33]Course the boss may persuade some poor d**n fool [01:02.63]To go to your meetin' and act like a stool [01:04.61]But you can always tell a stool though that's a fact [01:06.52]He's got a yaller streak a runnin' down his back [01:08.95]He doesn't have to stool he'll always get along [01:12.64] [01:14.03]On what he takes out of blind man's cups [01:16.03] [01:21.65]You got a union now and you're sittin' pretty [01:23.81]Put some of the boys on the steering committee [01:26.16]The boss won't listen when one guy squawks [01:28.16]But he's got to listen when the union talks [01:30.31]He'd better be mighty lonely [01:33.64] [01:35.69]Everybody decide to walk out on him [01:37.56] [01:42.08]Suppose they're working you so hard it's just outrageous [01:44.37]And they're paying you all starvation wages [01:46.73]You go to the boss and the boss would yell [01:48.57]Before I raise your pay I'd see you all in hell [01:50.57]Well he's puffing a big cigar feeling mighty slick [01:52.95]'Cause he thinks he's got your union licked [01:55.25]Well he looks out the window and what does he see [01:57.35]But a thousand pickets and they all agree [01:59.47]He's a bastard unfair slave driver [02:05.88]Bet he beats his wife [02:07.03] [02:11.38]Now boys you've come to the hardest time [02:13.73]The boss will try to bust your picket line [02:15.60]He'll call out the police the national guard [02:18.01]They'll tell you it's a crime to have a union card [02:20.26]They'll raid your meetin' they'll hit you on the head [02:22.25]They'll call every one of you a goddam red [02:24.29]Unpatriotic Japanese spies sabotaging national defense [02:31.95] [02:34.74]But out at ford here's what they found [02:36.94]And out at vultee here's what they found [02:39.15]And out at all is chalmers here's what they found [02:41.45]And down at Bethlehem here's what they found [02:43.50]That if you don't let red baiting break you up [02:45.59]And if you don't let stool pigeons break you up [02:47.91]And if you don't let vigilantes break you up [02:50.01]And if you don't let race hatred break you up [02:52.11]You'll win what I mean take it easy but take it