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Original lyrics by Ralph Chaplin (1915)
Revised lyrics and new arrangement by Dave Welsh (1988)
New York City Labor Chorus
Soloist Manny Brown

   

UNISON
When the union's inspiration
through the workers' 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
Because the union, yeah,
the union makes us strong.

CHORUS
MEZZOS:
So-(solidarity)-lidarity forever (we're singing bout solidarity)
So-solidarity)-lidarity forever (we're gonna shout solidarity)
So-(solidarity)-lidarity forever (forever)
Because the union, yeah,
the union makes us strong.

They have taken (they have taken)
untold millions (millions)
That they never toiled to earn (never toiled to earn)
But without our brain and muscle
(not a single) not a single wheel can turn
We can break (break) their haughty power (their power)
Gain our freedom when we learn
That the union, yeah, the union makes us strong.

REPEAT CHORUS

In our hands is placed a power (we got a power)
greater than their hoarded gold
Greater than the strength of armies
magnified a thousand fold.
(it's greater than their armies by)
We can bring (bring to birth) a new (a new) world
from the ashes of the old
Because the union, yeah, the union makes us strong.

 
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