There is Power in a Union Billy Bragg, arr. SSC/Sally Blyth
There is power in the factory, there’s power in the land (A+T+B “Oh”)
Power in the hands of the worker.
But it all amounts to nothing if together we don’t stand.
There is power in the Union.
Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers’ blood,
The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for.
From the cities and the farmlands to the trenches full of mud,
War has been the bosses way, sir.
Chorus
Now I long for the morning when they realise
Unjust wars cannot defeat us,
But who’ll defend the workers who cannot organize
When the bosses send their lackies out to cheat us?
Chorus
Chorus:
Soprano and Bass:
The union forever defending our rights.
Stand with the picket, all workers unite.
With our sisters and our brothers in many far off lands,
There is power in the union.
Alto: The union forever, the Union defending us.
Stand … picket, all workers unite.
With our sisters and our brothers in many far off lands,
There is power in the union.
Tenor: The union forever, the Union defending us.
Stand with the picket, all workers unite.
With our sisters and our brothers in many far off lands,
There is power in the union