《Talking Union》歌词

[00:00:00] Talking Union - The Almanac Singers/Pete Seeger (皮特·西格)

[00:00:06] Now if you want higher wages let me tell you what to do

[00:00:08] You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you

[00:00:10] You got to build you a union got to make it strong

[00:00:12] But if you all stick together for I won't be long

[00:00:15] You'll get shorter hours

[00:00:18] Better working conditions vacations with pay

[00:00:21] Take your kids to the seashore

[00:00:24] It ain't quite this simple so I better explain

[00:00:26] Just why you got to ride on the union train

[00:00:28] 'Cause if you wait for the boss to raise your pay

[00:00:31] We'll all be waiting till judgment day

[00:00:33] We'll all he buried gone to heaven

[00:00:38] Saint peter'll be the straw boss then

[00:00:42] Now you know you're underpaid hut the boss says you ain't

[00:00:44] He speeds up the work till you're 'bout to faint

[00:00:46] You may he down and out but you ain't beaten

[00:00:49] You can pass out a leaflet and call a meetin'

[00:00:51] Talk it over speak your mind

[00:00:56] Decide to do something about it

[00:00:59] 'Course the boss may persuade some poor damn fool

[00:01:02] To go to your meeting and act like a stool

[00:01:04] But you can always tell a stool though that's a fact

[00:01:06] He got a yellow streak running down his back

[00:01:08] He doesn't have to stool he'll always get long

[00:01:13] On what he takes out of blind mens cups

[00:01:20] You got a union now you're sitting pretty

[00:01:23] Put some of the boys on the steering committee

[00:01:25] The boss won't listen when one man squawks

[00:01:27] But he's got to listen when the union talks he better

[00:01:31] He'll be mighty lonely everybody decided work out on here

[00:01:40] Suppose they're working you so hard it's just outrageous

[00:01:43] They're paying you all starvation wages

[00:01:45] You go to the boss and the boss would yell

[00:01:47] Before I'd raise your pay I'd see you all in hell

[00:01:49] Well he's puffing a big segar and feeling mighty slick

[00:01:51] He thinks he's got your union licked

[00:01:53] He looks out the window and what does he see

[00:01:56] But a thousand pickets and they all agree

[00:01:58] He's a bastard unfair slave driver

[00:02:04] Bet he beats his own wife

[00:02:09] Now boy you've come to the hardest time

[00:02:12] The boss will try to bust your picket line

[00:02:14] He'll call out the police the national guard

[00:02:16] They'll tell you it's a crime to have a union card

[00:02:18] They'll raid your meeting hit you on the head

[00:02:20] Thay're call every one of you a goddamn red

[00:02:22] Unpatriotic japanese fats

[00:02:27] Save the talking national decides

[00:02:32] But out in detroit here's what they found

[00:02:34] And out in frisco here's what they found

[00:02:37] And out in pittsburgh here's what they found

[00:02:39] And down in bethlehem here's what they found

[00:02:41] That if you don't let red-baiting break you up

[00:02:43] And if you don't let stool pigeons break you up

[00:02:45] If you don't let vigilantes break you up

[00:02:47] And if you don't let race hatred break you up

[00:02:49] You'll win what I mean

[00:02:51] Take it easy but take it