《Talking Union》歌词

[00:00:00] Talking Union - Almanac Singers

[00:00:00] Written by：Almanac Singers

[00:00:05] If you want higher wages let me

[00:00:07] Tell you what to do

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

[00:00:08] Workers in the shop with you

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

[00:00:11] Union got to make it strong

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

[00:00:13] Together now won't he long

[00:00:14] You'll get shorter hours

[00:00:18] 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 ride

[00:00:27] 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 waiting

[00:00:32] Till Judgment Day

[00:00:33] We'll all he buried gone to Heaven

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

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

[00:00:43] Underpaid hut 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 he down and out but you ain't beaten

[00:00:49] Pass out a leaflet and call a meetin'

[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

[00:01:01] Persuade some poor damn fool

[00:01:02] To go to your meeting

[00:01:03] And act like a stool

[00:01:04] But you can always

[00:01:05] Tell a stool though that's a fact

[00:01:06] He's got a yellow streak

[00:01:07] Running down his back

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

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

[00:01:14] On what he takes

[00:01:15] Out of blind men's cups

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

[00:01:22] You're sitting pretty

[00:01:23] Put some of the boys

[00:01:25] On the steering committee

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

[00:01:27] When one man squawks

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

[00:01:29] When the union talks he better

[00:01:32] He'll be mighty lonely everybady

[00:01:36] Dicide work out on him

[00:01:42] Suppose they're working

[00:01:42] You so hard it's

[00:01:43] Just outrageous

[00:01:44] They're paying you

[00:01:44] All starvation wages

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:51] Seegar and feeling mighty slick

[00:01:53] He thinks he's got

[00:01:53] Your union licked

[00:01:55] He looks out the window

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

[00:01:57] But a thousand pickets

[00:01:58] And they all agree

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

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

[00:02:11] Now boy you've come

[00:02:12] To the hardest time

[00:02:13] The boss will try to

[00:02:14] Bust your picket line

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

[00:02:16] The National Guard

[00:02:18] They'll tell you

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

[00:02:20] They'll raid your meeting

[00:02:21] Hit you on the head

[00:02:22] Call every one of you a goddamn Red

[00:02:24] Unpatriotic Japanese biees

[00:02:30] Bomb throwers even the kids

[00:02:35] But out in Detroit here's

[00:02:36] What they found

[00:02:37] And out in Frisco here's

[00:02:38] What they found

[00:02:39] And out in Pittsburgh

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

[00:02:41] And down in Bethlehem

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

[00:02:43] That if you don't let

[00:02:44] Red baiting break you up

[00:02:45] If you don't let

[00:02:46] Stool pigeons break you up

[00:02:47] If you don't let

[00:02:48] Vigilantes break you up

[00:02:50] And if you don't

[00:02:50] Let race hatred break you up

[00:02:52] You'll win what I mean

[00:02:53] Take it easy but take it