From: Nick [email protected]
This is a very powerful song about the union, and how great it is, inspired by Joe Hill,
He is remembered by Billy Bragg a number of times, he is the one who said » There’s power in a union»
There’s power in a Union
By Billy Bragg
Verse 1
G
There’s power in a factory
C
Power in the land
G D
power in the hands of the worker.
G C
But it all amounts to nothing if together we don’t stand
G D G
There is power in a union
Verse 2
G C
Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers blood
G D
Mistakes of the bosses we must pay for
G C
from the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud,
G D G
war has always been the bosses way sir
Chorus 1 and 3
G C G
The union forever, defending our rights
G C G D
down with the blackleg all workers unite
G
with our brothers and our sisters
C
from many far off lands
G D G
there is power in a union
Verse 3
G C
Now I long for the morning that they realise
G D
Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us
G C
But who’ll defend the workers who cannot organise
G C G D
when the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us
Chorus 2
G C G C
Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own,
G C G D
who comes to speak for the skin and the bone
G C G C
what a comfort for the widow, a light to the child,
G G D
There is power in a union
REPEAT CHORUS 1