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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Dropkick Murphys
Dropkick Murphys
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Dropkick Murphys
Dropkick Murphys
Composer
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
Lyrics
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Ryan Mall
Ryan Mall
Mixing Engineer
Ted Hutt
Ted Hutt
Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Come all you friends and workers
A tale I'll tell to you
Of how we built our union
You call the NMU
[Verse 2]
We fought the goons and gun thugs
Around the ocean shores
I guess I got my head caved in
A dozen times or more
[Verse 3]
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
[Verse 4]
You had a phony set up
You called the SIU
We had a ratty ship and a crummy bunk
With roaches in our stew
We fought against the weather
And the stooges too
To win a clean bunk and mess hall
For newly-comes like you
[Verse 5]
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
[Verse 6]
For me to try to change this whole big mess around by myself
I wouldn't last longer than a snowball in hell
But there's a hundred thousand of me now
And we fought like hell to get here
So you fight like hell to keep what we shed blood to earn
[Verse 7]
For eight hours a day and overtime pay
We battled it out with you big shot men
We've seen times that looked pretty dark
Until we brought the union in
[Verse 8]
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
[Verse 9]
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
All you fonies, you're bound to lose, lose, lose
Written by: Dropkick Murphys, Woody Guthrie
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