Solidarity Forever
by Pete Seeger · posted by ,,,
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CHORUS:
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Solidarity forever,
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Solidarity forever,
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Solidarity forever,
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For the union makes us strong.
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When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
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There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun
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Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
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But the union makes us strong.
[Chorus]
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It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade
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Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid
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Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made,
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But the union makes us strong.
[Chorus]
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They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
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But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
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We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
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That the union makes us strong.
[Chorus]
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In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
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Greater than the might of atoms, multiplied a thousand-fold.
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We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
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For the union makes us strong.