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SOLIDARITY FOREVER

When the union's inspiration through worker's 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,
For the union makes us strong.

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.

Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong

It is we who ploughed 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 'mid the wonders we have made,
But the union makes us strong.

Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever,
For 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.

Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever,
For 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 will turn;
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn;
That the union makes us strong.

Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever,
For 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.

Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong

"Solidarity," Words by Ralph Chaplin

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