Talking Union - The Almanac Singers.mp3

[00:00.00] 作曲 : Millard Lampell/Pete Seeger/Lee Hays
[00:05.19]Now, if you want higher wages let me tell you what to do
[00:07.50]You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you
[00:09.75]You got to build you a union, got to make it strong
[00:12.18]But if you all stick together, boys, it won't be long
[00:14.52]You get shorter hours, better working conditions
[00:19.95]Vacations with pay. Take your kids to the seashore
[00:23.70]It ain't quite this simple, so I better explain
[00:25.98]Just why you got to ride on the union train
[00:28.29]'Cause if you wait for the boss to raise your pay
[00:30.78]We'll all be a-waitin' 'til Judgment Day
[00:32.85]We'll all be buried, gone to heaven
[00:37.77]St. Peter'll be the straw boss then
[00:42.06]Now you know you're underpaid but the boss says you ain't;
[00:44.43]He speeds up the work 'til you're 'bout to faint
[00:46.47]You may be down and out, but you ain't beaten
[00:48.72]You can pass out a leaflet and call a meetin'
[00:50.94]Talk it over, speak your mind
[00:55.86]Decide to do somethin' about it
[00:59.55]Course, the boss may persuade some poor damn fool
[01:02.04]To go to your meetin' and act like a stool
[01:03.96]But you can always tell a stool, though, that's a fact
[01:06.12]He's got a yaller streak a-runnin' down his back
[01:08.28]He doesn't have to stool, he'll always get along
[01:13.35]On what he takes out of blind men's cups
[01:20.67]You got a union now, and you're sittin' pretty
[01:22.92]Put some of the boys on the steering committee
[01:25.26]The boss won't listen when one guy squawks
[01:27.39]But he's got to listen when the union talks
[01:29.52]He'd better, be mighty lonely
[01:34.56]Everybody decide to walk out on him
[01:40.95]Suppose they're working you so hard it's just outrageous
[01:43.41]And they're paying you all starvation wages
[01:45.63]You go to the boss and the boss would yell
[01:47.46]"Before I raise your pay I'd see you all in hell."
[01:49.47]Well, he's puffing a big seegar, feeling mighty slick
[01:51.87]'Cause he thinks he's got your union licked
[01:54.09]Well, he looks out the window and what does he see
[01:56.13]But a thousand pickets, and they all agree:
[01:58.32]He's a bastard, unfair, slavedriver
[02:04.77]Bet he beats his wife!
[02:09.93]Now, boys, you've come to the hardest time
[02:12.42]The boss will try to bust your picket line
[02:14.34]He'll call out the police, the National Guard
[02:16.71]They'll tell you it's a crime to have a union card
[02:18.63]They'll raid your meetin', they'll hit you on the head
[02:20.79]They'll call every one of you a goddam red
[02:22.68]Unpatriotic, Japanese spies, sabotaging national defense!
[02:32.97]But out at Ford, here's what they found
[02:35.19]And out at Vultee, here's what they found
[02:37.35]And out at Allis-Chalmers, here's what they found
[02:39.54]And down at Bethlehem, here's what they found:
[02:41.58]That if you don't let red-baiting break you up
[02:43.77]And if you don't let stoolpigeons break you up
[02:45.93]And if you don't let vigilantes break you up
[02:48.06]And if you don't let race hatred break you up
[02:50.16]You'll win. What I mean, take it easy, but take it!