Solidarity Forever sung by Pete Seeger & The Weavers, with old photographs of the labor movement in US History.This is a tribute to all the workers who sacrificed to make a better world for their children and grand children.
Solidarity forever! by Ralph Chaplin (1915) (modified slightly by Pete Seeger)
When the union's inspiration
Through the worker's 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?
But the union makes us strong.
Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
For the union makes us strong.
It is we who plowed the prairies,
Built the cities where they trade,
Dug the mines and built the workshops,
Endless miles of railroad laid.
Now we stand outcast and starving
'Mid the wonders we have made.
But the union makes us strong.
Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
For the union makes us strong.
They have taken untold millions
That they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle
Not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power
Gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong.
Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
For the union makes us strong.
In our hands is placed a power
Greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of atoms
Magnified a thousand fold.
We can bring to birth a new world
From the ashes of the old,
For the union makes us strong.
Don't let the capitalists trick you into thinking that intellectuals and college professors are the haughty elitists. As Pete Seeger & The Weavers tell us in this song the true enemy of the working woman and man are those who do not toil themselves and yet make millions off of your labor.
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