There Is Power in a Union

There's power in a factory, power in the land

Power in the hand of the worker

But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand

There is power in a union

Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers' blood

Mistakes of the bosses we must pay for

From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud

War has always been the bosses' way, sir

The union forever defending our rights

Down with the blackleg, the workers unite

With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands

There is power in a union

Now I long for the morning that they realize

Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us

But who'll defend the workers who cannot organize

When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us?

Money speaks for money, the devil for his own

Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?

What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child

There is power in a union

The union forever defending our rights

Down with the blackleg, all workers unite

With our brothers and our sisters, together we will stand

There is power in a union