There Is Power In A Union chords by Billy Bragg

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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There is power in a factory,
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power in the land
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Power in the hand of the worker
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But it all amounts to nothing
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If together we don't stand
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There is power in a Union

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Verse 2

Now the lessons of the past

Were all learned with workers' blood

The mistakes of the bosses

we must pay for

From the cities and the farmlands

To trenches full of mud

War's always been the

bosses' way, sir

Verse 3
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The Union forever de
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fending our rights
Down with the blackleg,
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all workers unite
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With our brothers and our sisters
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From many far off lands
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There is power in a Union

Verse 4
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Now I long for the morning
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that they realize
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Brutality and unjust laws
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cannot defeat us
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But who'll defend the workers
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who cannot organise
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When the bosses send
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their lackeys out to cheat us?

Verse 5
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Money speaks for money
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The Devil for his own
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Who comes to speak for
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the skin and the bone?
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What a comfort to the widow
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A light to the child
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There is power in a Union

Interlude 1

Verse 6
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The Union forever de
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fending our rights
Down with the blackleg,
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D 
all workers unite
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With our brothers and our sisters
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Together we will stand
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There is power in a Union