Which Side Are You On?

Music traditional
Based on words by Florence Reese

Come all of you good workers.
Good news to you I’ll tell
Of how the good old union
Has come in here to dwell.

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Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

My daddy was a miner,
My mom a worker too,
And I’ll stick with the union
‘Til every battle’s through.

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We’re fighting for our future
We’re fighting for fifteen
Oh will you stand beside us
Or with the Koch machine?

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They say in the school system,
There are no neutrals there;
You’re with the kids and workers,
Or with the billionaires.

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Oh workers can you stand it?
Oh tell me how you can.
Oh will you let them beat you down
Or will you take a stand?

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The one percent get richer
While we get less and less
They’ve stolen everything they can
And now they want the rest

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Don’t scab for the bosses,
Don’t listen to their lies.
Us poor folks haven’t got a chance
Unless we organize.

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