《Talking Union(Analog Source Remaster 2016)》歌词

[00:00:00] Talking Union (Analog Source Remaster 2016) - The Almanac Singers

[00:00:01] Written by：Millard Lampell/Pete Seeger/Lee Hays/Rr

[00:00:05] Now if you want higher wages

[00:00:06] Let me tell you what to do

[00:00:07] You got to talk to the workers

[00:00:08] In the shop with you

[00:00:09] You got to build you a union

[00:00:11] Got to make it strong

[00:00:12] But if you all stick together

[00:00:13] Boys it won't be long

[00:00:14] You get shorter hours

[00:00:17] Better working conditions

[00:00:20] Vacations with pay

[00:00:21] Take your kids to the seashore

[00:00:24] It ain't quite this simple

[00:00:25] So I better explain

[00:00:26] Just why you got to

[00:00:27] Ride on the union train

[00:00:28] Cause if you wait for

[00:00:29] The boss to raise your pay

[00:00:31] We'll all be a waiting till Judgment Day

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

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

[00:00:42] Now you know you're underpaid

[00:00:43] But the boss says you ain't

[00:00:44] He speeds up the work

[00:00:45] Till you're about to faint

[00:00:47] You may be down and out

[00:00:48] But you ain't beaten

[00:00:48] You can pass out a leaflet

[00:00:50] And call a meeting

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

[00:00:56] Decide to do something about it

[00:01:00] Course the boss may persuade

[00:01:01] Some poor d**n fool

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

[00:01:04] But you can always tell a stool

[00:01:05] Though that's a fact

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

[00:01:08] He doesn't have to stool

[00:01:11] He'll always get along

[00:01:14] On what he takes out of blind men's cups

[00:01:21] You got a union now

[00:01:22] And you're sitting pretty

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

[00:01:26] The boss won't listen

[00:01:27] When one guy squawks

[00:01:28] But he's got to listen

[00:01:29] When the union talks

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

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

[00:01:41] Suppose they're working you

[00:01:42] So hard it's just outrageous

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

[00:01:46] You go to the boss

[00:01:47] And the boss would yell

[00:01:48] Before I raise your pay

[00:01:49] I'd see you all in hell

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

[00:01:51] Feeling mighty slick

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

[00:01:55] Well he looks out the window

[00:01:56] And what does he see

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

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

[00:02:06] Bet he beats his wife

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

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

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

[00:02:16] The national guard

[00:02:17] They'll tell you

[00:02:18] It's a crime to have a union card

[00:02:19] They'll raid your meeting

[00:02:20] They'll hit you on the head

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

[00:02:24] Unpatriotic Japanese spies

[00:02:29] Sabotaging national defense

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

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

[00:02:39] And out at Allis Chalmers

[00:02:40] Here's what they found

[00:02:41] And down at Bethlehem

[00:02:42] Here's what they found

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

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

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

[00:02:49] And if you don't let race hatred break you up

[00:02:51] You'll win what I mean

[00:02:53] Take it easy

[00:02:54] But take it