When the union's inspiration through the workers blood shall run

There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun

Yet what force on Earth is weaker than the feeble force of one but

The union makes us strong

Solidarity Forever, Solidarity Forever, Solidarity Forever

For the union makes us strong



Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite

Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might

Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight? For…

The union makes us strong

Solidarity Forever, Solidarity Forever, Solidarity Forever

For the union makes us strong



It is we who plowed the prairies, build the cities where they trade

Dug the mines and build the workshops, endless miles of RR laid

Now we stand outcast and starving 'mid the wonders we have made but

The union makes us strong

Solidarity Forever, Solidarity Forever, Solidarity Forever

For the union makes us strong



They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn

But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn

We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn that

The union makes us strong

Solidarity Forever, Solidarity Forever, Solidarity Forever

For the union makes us strong



In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold

Greater than the might of armies magnified a thousand-fold

We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old for

But the union makes us strong

Solidarity Forever, Solidarity Forever, Solidarity Forever

For the union makes us strong

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