These
are the words to Solidarity Forever, the real UAW's anthem.
Solidarity Forever
by Ralph Chaplin, 1915
When the union's inspiration through the
worker's blood shall run,
There can be no power greater anywhere
beneath the sun,
Yet what force on earth is weaker
than the feeble strength of one,
For the Union makes us strong.
(This is the chores) Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever, the Union makes us strong.
It is we who plowed the prairies; built the
cities where they trade;
Dug the mines and built the workshops,
endless miles of railroad laid;
Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders
we have made;
But the Union makes us strong. (chores)
They have taken untold millions that they
never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle not a single
wheel would turn,
We can break their haughty power,
gain our freedom when we learn,
That the Union makes us strong. (chores)
In our hands is placed a power greater than
their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies magnified a
thousandfold,
We can bring a birth to a new world from the
ashes of the old,
For the Union makes us strong. (chores)