Talking Union-Pete Seeger/The Weavers

[ti:Talking Union] [ar:Almanac Singers] [al:Which Side Are You On?] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Union - Pete Seeger/The Weavers [00:05.66]If you want higher wages let me [00:07.06]Tell you what to do [00:07.95]You got to talk to the [00:08.97]Workers in the shop with you [00:09.99]You got to build you a [00:11.10]Union got to make it strong [00:12.47]But if you all stick [00:13.36]Together now won't he long [00:14.93]You'll get shorter hours [00:15.69] [00:18.07]Better working conditions [00:18.75] [00:20.58]Vacations with pay [00:21.63]Take your kids to the seashore [00:22.54] [00:24.25]It ain't quite this simple [00:25.40]So I better explain [00:26.57]Just why you got to ride [00:27.64]On the union train [00:28.66]Cause if you wait for [00:29.65]The boss to raise your pay [00:31.21]We'll all be waiting [00:32.14]Till Judgment Day [00:33.36]We'll all he buried gone to Heaven [00:36.65] [00:38.53]Saint Peter'll be the straw boss then [00:39.96] [00:42.73]Now you know you're [00:43.35]Underpaid hut the boss says you ain't [00:44.95]He speeds up the work [00:45.95]Till you're about to faint [00:47.02]You may he down and out but you ain't beaten [00:49.24]Pass out a leaflet and call a meetin' [00:51.43]Talk it over speak your mind [00:54.53] [00:56.75]Decide to do something about it [00:58.06] [01:00.43]Course the boss may [01:01.23]Persuade some poor damn fool [01:02.68]To go to your meeting [01:03.62]And act like a stool [01:04.68]But you can always [01:05.27]Tell a stool though that's a fact [01:06.77]He's got a yellow streak [01:07.90]Running down his back [01:08.94]He doesn't have to stool [01:09.94] [01:11.52]He'll always get long [01:12.48] [01:14.32]On what he takes [01:15.07]Out of blind men's cups [01:15.93] [01:21.84]You got a union now [01:22.82]You're sitting pretty [01:23.40] [01:23.91]Put some of the boys [01:25.02]On the steering committee [01:26.31]The boss won't listen [01:27.17]When one man squawks [01:28.13]But he's got to listen [01:29.19]When the union talks he better [01:30.85] [01:32.66]He'll be mighty lonely everybady [01:36.23]Dicide work out on him [01:37.36] [01:42.30]Suppose they're working [01:42.93]You so hard it's [01:43.74]Just outrageous [01:44.09]They're paying you [01:44.95]All starvation wages [01:46.79]You go to the boss [01:47.74]And the boss would yell [01:48.69]Before I'd raise your pay [01:49.70]I'd see you all in Hell [01:50.77]Well he's puffing a big [01:51.93]Seegar and feeling mighty slick [01:53.01]He thinks he's got [01:53.85]Your union licked [01:54.95] [01:55.50]He looks out the window [01:56.56]And what does he see [01:57.51]But a thousand pickets [01:58.65]And they all agree [01:59.63]He's a bastard unfair slave driver [02:05.43] [02:06.19]Bet he beats his own wife [02:07.20] [02:11.43]Now boy you've come [02:12.62]To the hardest time [02:13.25] [02:13.79]The boss will try to [02:14.71]Bust your picket line [02:15.65]He'll call out the police [02:16.78]The National Guard [02:18.02]They'll tell you [02:18.73]It's a crime to have a union card [02:20.04]They'll raid your meeting [02:21.18]Hit you on the head [02:22.15]Call every one of you a goddamn Red [02:24.46]Unpatriotic Japanese biees [02:28.02] [02:30.36]Bomb throwers even the kids [02:31.94] [02:35.05]But out in Detroit here's [02:36.47]What they found [02:37.17]And out in Frisco here's [02:38.56]What they found [02:39.24]And out in Pittsburgh [02:40.28]Here's what they found [02:41.48]And down in Bethlehem [02:42.41]Here's what they found [02:43.51]That if you don't let [02:44.26]Red baiting break you up [02:45.66]If you don't let [02:46.46]Stool pigeons break you up [02:47.91]If you don't let [02:48.71]Vigilantes break you up [02:50.07]And if you don't [02:50.87]Let race hatred break you up [02:52.26]You'll win what I mean [02:53.73]Take it easy but take it