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《Talking Union》歌词


歌曲: Talking Union

所属专辑:ALMANAC SINGERS: Talking Union (1941-1942)

歌手: Pete Seeger&Almanac Singe

时长: 02:59

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Talking Union

Talking Union - Pete Seeger (皮特·西格)/Almanac Singers[00:00:00]

Written by:Pete Seeger/Millard Lampell/Lee Hays[00:00:00]

Now if you want higher wages let me tell you what to do[00:00:06]

You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you[00:00:08]

You got to build you a union got to make it strong[00:00:10]

But if you all stick together boys it won't be long[00:00:12]

You get shorter hours better working conditions[00:00:15]

Vacations with pay take your kids to the seashore[00:00:20]

It ain't quite this simple so I better explain[00:00:24]

Just why you got to ride on the union train[00:00:26]

'Cause if you wait for the boss to raise your pay[00:00:29]

We'll all be a waitin' 'til Judgment day[00:00:31]

We'll all be buried gone to heaven[00:00:33]

St Peter'll be the straw boss then[00:00:38]

Now you know you're underpaid but the boss says you ain't[00:00:42]

He speeds up the work 'til you're 'bout to faint[00:00:44]

You may be down and out but you ain't beaten[00:00:47]

You can pass out a leaflet and call a meetin'[00:00:49]

Talk it over speak your mind[00:00:51]

Decide to do somethin' about it[00:00:56]

Course the boss may persuade some poor damn fool[00:01:00]

To go to your meetin' and act like a stool[00:01:02]

But you can always tell a stool though that's a fact[00:01:04]

He's got a yaller streak a runnin' down his back[00:01:06]

He doesn't have to stool he'll always get along[00:01:08]

On what he takes out of blind men's cups[00:01:13]

You got a union now and you're sittin' pretty[00:01:21]

Put some of the boys on the steering committee[00:01:23]

The boss won't listen when one guy squawks[00:01:25]

But he's got to listen when the union talks[00:01:27]

He'd better be mighty lonely[00:01:29]

Everybody decide to walk out on him[00:01:34]

Suppose they're working you so hard it's just outrageous[00:01:41]

And they're paying you all starvation wages[00:01:43]

You go to the boss and the boss would yell[00:01:45]

Before I raise your pay I'd see you all in hell[00:01:47]

Well he's puffing a big seegar feeling mighty slick[00:01:49]

'Cause he thinks he's got your union licked[00:01:51]

Well he looks out the window and what does he see[00:01:54]

But a thousand pickets and they all agree[00:01:56]

He's a bastard unfair slavedriver[00:01:58]

Bet he beats his wife[00:02:04]

Now boys you've come to the hardest time[00:02:09]

The boss will try to bust your picket line[00:02:12]

He'll call out the police the national guard[00:02:14]

They'll tell you it's a crime to have a union card[00:02:16]

They'll raid your meetin' they'll hit you on the head[00:02:18]

They'll call every one of you a goddam red[00:02:20]

Unpatriotic Japanese spies sabotaging national defense[00:02:23]

But out at ford here's what they found[00:02:33]

And out at vultee here's what they found[00:02:35]

And out at allis chalmers here's what they found[00:02:37]

And down at bethlehem here's what they found[00:02:39]

That if you don't let red baiting break you up[00:02:41]

And if you don't let stoolpigeons break you up[00:02:43]

And if you don't let vigilantes break you up[00:02:45]

And if you don't let race hatred break you up[00:02:47]

You'll win what I mean take it easy but take it[00:02:50]