Billy Bragg - There Is Power in a Union Lyrics

Lyrics There Is Power in a Union - Billy Bragg




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



Writer(s): Stephen William Bragg


Billy Bragg - The Roaring Forty (1983-2023) [Deluxe Edition]
Album The Roaring Forty (1983-2023) [Deluxe Edition]
date of release
27-10-2023

1 Greetings to the New Brunette
2 There Is Power in a Union
3 She's Got a New Spell
4 The Internationale
5 Walt Whitman's Niece
6 My Flying Saucer
7 Some Days I See the Point
8 Never Buy The Sun
9 Bugeye Jim
10 Handyman Blues
11 Mid-Century Modern
12 Help Save the Youth of America
13 Must I Paint You a Picture
14 Tank Park Salute
15 Take Down the Union Jack (Band Version)
16 England, Half English
17 Old Clash Fan Fight Song
18 Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
19 No One Knows Nothing Anymore
20 King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood
21 I Keep Faith
22 The Boy Done Good
23 She's Leaving Home (feat. Cara Tivey)
24 California Stars - Live October / November 1998
25 The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore
26 Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards
27 I Will Be Your Shield
28 Accident Waiting to Happen (Red Star Version)
29 Upfield
30 The Milkman of Human Kindness
31 To Have and to Have Not
32 The Man in the Iron Mask
33 St. Swithin's Day
34 The Saturday Boy
35 Between the Wars
36 The World Turned Upside Down
37 Which Side Are You On?




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