Key: E major
Verse 1
E
Now, if you want higher wages let me
B
E
tell you what to do
You got to talk to the workers
in the shop with you.
But if you all stick together,
boys, it won't be long.
You get shorter hours,
better working conditions,
Vacations with pay. Take your kids
Verse 2
to the seashore.
E
A
It ain't quite this simple,
so I better explain
Just why you got to ride
on the union train.
E
B
'Cause if you wait for the boss
to raise your pay,
We'll all be a- waitin' 'til Judgment
Day.
then.
Verse 3
He speeds up the work 'til you're 'bout
to faint.
, but you ain't beaten,
You can pass out a leaflet and
call a meetin'.
Talk it over, speak your mind,
Verse 4
Course, the boss may persuade
some poor damn fool
To go to your meetin' and act
like a stool.
though, that's a fact,
He's got a yaller streak a- runnin'
B
down his back.
He doesn't have to stool,
he'll always get along
On what he takes out of blind men's cups.
Verse 5
Put some of the boys on the steer
B
E
A
ing committee.
E
B
A
E
The boss won't listen when one guy squawks,
B
the union talks.
He'd better, be mighty lonely
Everybody decide to walk
Verse 6
out on him.
hard it's just outrageous
And they're paying you
all starvation wages.
"Before I raise your pay I'd see you
all in hell."
Well, he's puffing a big seegar,
'Cause he thinks he's
got your union licked.
and what does he see
But a thousand pickets,
He's a bastard, unfair,
slavedriver,
Bet he beats his wife!
Verse 7
Now, boys, you've come to the hardest time.
E
The boss will try to bust your picket line.
He'll call out the police, the National Guard,
They'll raid your meetin',
they'll hit you on the head,
They'll call every one of you a goddam red,
Unpatriotic, Japanese spies,
sabotaging national defense!
Verse 8
E
A
But out at Ford, here's what they found,
And out at Vultee, here's what they found,
And out at Allis- Chalmers,
what they found:
That if you don't let
red- baiting break you up,
And if you don't let stoolpigeons break you up,
break you up,
E
And if you don't let race hatred break you up,
You'll win. What
I mean, take it easy, but take it!
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TunerE A D G B E
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