Talking Union-Almanac Singers

[ti:Talking Union] [ar:Almanac Singers] [al:Classic Folk Songs - Vol. 4 - Almanac Singers] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Talking Union - Almanac Singers [00:00.02]Written by：Almanac Singers [00:00.04] [00:05.23]Now if you want higher wages let me tell you what to do [00:07.75]You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you [00:09.87]You got to build you a union got to make it strong [00:12.14]But if you all stick together boys it won't be long [00:14.47]You'll get shorter hours [00:15.91] [00:17.62]Better working conditions vacations with pay [00:21.22]Take your kids to the seashore [00:22.53] [00:23.97]It ain't quite this simple so I better explain [00:26.07]Just why you got to ride on the union train [00:28.48]Because if you wait for the boss to raise your pay [00:30.88]We'll all be a waiting till Judgment Day [00:33.07]We'll all he buried gone to Heaven [00:36.49] [00:38.12]Saint Peter'll be the straw boss then [00:39.92] [00:42.33]Now you know you're underpaid but the boss says you ain't [00:44.80]He speeds up the work till you're about to faint [00:46.77]You may he down and out but you ain't beaten [00:49.07]You can pass out a leaflet and call a meeting [00:51.31]Talk it over speak your mind [00:54.84] [00:56.43]Decide to do something about it [00:58.12] [01:00.22]Course the boss may persuade some poor damn fool [01:02.46]To go to your meeting and act like a stool [01:04.37]But you can always tell a stool though that's a fact [01:06.50]He's got a yellow streak running down his back [01:08.88]He doesn't have to stool he'll always get along [01:12.88] [01:13.89]On what he takes out of blind men's cups [01:16.06] [01:21.47]You got a union now and you're sitting pretty [01:23.63]Put some of the boys on the steering committee [01:25.99]The boss won't listen when one guy squawks [01:28.14]But he's got to listen when the union talks he'd better [01:30.88] [01:32.49]Be mighty lonely [01:33.66] [01:35.49]Everybody dicide to work out on him [01:37.43] [01:42.04]Suppose they're working you so hard it's just outrageous [01:44.09]They're paying you all starvation wages [01:46.44]You go to the boss and the boss would yell [01:48.37]Before I'd raise your pay [01:49.35]I'd see you all in Hell [01:50.41]Well he's puffing a big seegar and feeling mighty slick [01:52.72]Because he thinks he's got your union licked [01:54.92]Well he looks out the window and what does he see [01:57.09]But a thousand pickets and they all agree [01:59.28]He's a bastard unfair slave driver [02:05.68]Bet he beats his wife [02:06.90] [02:11.24]Now boy you've come to the hardest time [02:13.49]The boss will try to bust your picket line [02:15.43]He'll call out the police the National Guard [02:17.74]They'll tell you it's a crime to have a union card [02:19.83]They'll raid your meeting they'll hit you on the head [02:22.07]They'll call every one of you a goddamn Red [02:24.10]Unpatriotic Japanese spies sabotaging national defense [02:32.09] [02:34.52]But out at Ford here's what they found [02:36.75]And out at Vultee here's what they found [02:38.95]And out at Allis Chalmers here's what they found [02:41.33]And down at Bethlehem here's what they found [02:43.30]That if you don't let red baiting break you up [02:45.25]And if you don't let stoolpigeons break you up [02:47.73]And if you don't let vigilantes break you up [02:49.80]And if you don't let race hatred break you up [02:52.00]You'll win What I mean take it easy but take it