《Talking Union》歌词

歌曲： Talking Union

所属专辑：Washington Breakdown

歌手： Pete Seeger

时长： 02:57

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

Written by：L. Hays/M. Lampell/P. Seeger[00:00:01]

Now if you want higher wages let me tell you what to do[00:00:05]

You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you[00:00:07]

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[00:00:14]

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[00:00:28]

We'll all be a waitin' till 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 d**n 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 man's cups[00:01:14]

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[00:01:26]

But he's got to listen when the union talks[00:01:28]

He'd better be mighty lonely[00:01:30]

Everybody decide to walk out on him[00:01:35]

Suppose they're working you so hard it's just outrageous[00:01:42]

And they're paying you all starvation wages[00:01:44]

You go to the boss and the boss would yell[00:01:46]

Before I raise your pay I'd see you all in hell[00:01:48]

Well he's puffing a big cigar feeling mighty slick[00:01:50]

'Cause he thinks he's got your union licked[00:01:52]

Well he looks out the window and what does he see[00:01:55]

But a thousand pickets and they all agree[00:01:57]

He's a bastard unfair slave driver[00:01:59]

Bet he beats his wife[00:02:05]

Now boys you've come to the hardest time[00:02:11]

The boss will try to bust your picket line[00:02:13]

He'll call out the police the national guard[00:02:15]

They'll tell you it's a crime to have a union card[00:02:18]

They'll raid your meetin' they'll hit you on the head[00:02:20]

They'll call every one of you a goddam red[00:02:22]

Unpatriotic Japanese spies sabotaging national defense[00:02:24]

But out at ford here's what they found[00:02:34]

And out at vultee here's what they found[00:02:36]

And out at all is chalmers here's what they found[00:02:39]

And down at Bethlehem here's what they found[00:02:41]

That if you don't let red baiting break you up[00:02:43]

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

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

And if you don't let race hatred break you up[00:02:50]

You'll win what I mean take it easy but take it[00:02:52]