《Talking Union》歌词

[00:00:00] Talking Union - Joe Glazer/Charlie Byrd (查利·伯德站)

[00:00:00] 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 make it strong

[00:00:10] But if you all stick together boys it won't be long

[00:00:13] You get shorter hours better working conditions

[00:00:20] Vacations with pay

[00:00:22] Take your kids to the seashore

[00:00:26] It ain't quite this simple so I better explain

[00:00:29] Just why you got to ride on the union train

[00:00:32] 'Cause if you wait for the boss to raise your pay

[00:00:35] We'll all be a-waitin' 'til Judgment Day

[00:00:38] We'll all be buried gone to heaven

[00:00:44] St Peter'll be the straw boss then

[00:00:50] Now you know you're underpaid

[00:00:52] But the boss says you ain't

[00:00:54] He speeds up the work 'til you're 'bout to faint

[00:00:56] You may be down and out but you ain't beaten

[00:00:59] You can pass out a leaflet and call a meetin'

[00:01:02] Talk it over speak your mind

[00:01:09] Decide to do somethin' about it

[00:01:15] Course the boss may persuade some poor damn fool

[00:01:19] To go to your meetin' and act like a stool

[00:01:21] But you can always tell a stool though that's a fact

[00:01:24] He's got a yaller streak a-runnin' down his back

[00:01:27] He doesn't have to stool he'll always get along

[00:01:34] On what he takes out of blind men's cups

[00:01:39] You got a union now and you're sittin' pretty

[00:01:43] Put some of the boys on the steering committee

[00:01:46] The boss won't listen when one guy squawks

[00:01:49] But he's got to listen when the union talks

[00:01:52] He'd better be mighty lonely

[00:01:58] Everybody decide to walk out on him

[00:02:04] Suppose they're working you so hard it's just outrageous

[00:02:08] And they're paying you all starvation wages

[00:02:10] You go to the boss and the boss would yell

[00:02:13] "Before I raise your pay I'd see you all in hell "

[00:02:16] Well he's puffing a big seegar feeling mighty slick

[00:02:20] 'Cause he thinks he's got your union licked

[00:02:22] Well he looks out the window and what does he see

[00:02:25] But a thousand pickets and they all agree

[00:02:28] He's a bastard unfair slavedriver

[00:02:37] Bet he beats his wife

[00:02:40] Now boys you've come to the hardest time

[00:02:44] The boss will try to bust your picket line

[00:02:47] He'll call out the police the National Guard

[00:02:50] They'll tell you it's a crime to have a union card

[00:02:53] They'll raid your meetin' they'll hit you on the head

[00:02:56] They'll call every one of you a goddam red

[00:02:58] Unpatriotic Japanese spies sabotaging national defense

[00:03:11] But out at Ford here's what they found

[00:03:15] And out at Vultee here's what they found

[00:03:18] And out at Allis-Chalmers here's what they found

[00:03:21] And down at Bethlehem here's what they found

[00:03:24] That if you don't let red-baiting break you up

[00:03:27] And if you don't let stoolpigeons break you up

[00:03:30] And if you don't let vigilantes break you up

[00:03:33] And if you don't let race hatred break you up

[00:03:36] You'll win What I mean take it easy but take it