《Talking Union》歌词

[00:00:01] Talking Union -Pete Seeger

[00:01:10] Now, if you want higher wages let me tell you what to do

[00:01:13] You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you

[00:01:15] You got to build you a union, got to make it strong

[00:01:18] But if you all stick together, boys, it won't be long

[00:01:20] You get shorter hours, better working conditions

[00:01:25] Vacations with pay. Take your kids to the seashore

[00:01:30] It ain't quite this simple, so I better explain

[00:01:32] Just why you got to ride on the union train

[00:01:35] 'Cause if you wait for the boss to raise your pay

[00:01:37] We'll all be a-waitin' 'til Judgment Day

[00:01:39] We'll all be buried, gone to heaven

[00:01:44] St. Peter'll be the straw boss then

[00:01:48] Now you know you're underpaid but the boss says you ain't

[00:01:51] He speeds up the work 'til you're 'bout to faint

[00:01:53] You may be down and out, but you ain't beaten

[00:01:55] You can pass out a leaflet and call a meetin'

[00:01:57] Talk it over, speak your mind

[00:02:02] Decide to do somethin' about it

[00:02:05] Course, the boss may persuade some poor damn fool

[00:02:08] To go to your meetin' and act like a stool

[00:02:11] But you can always tell a stool, though, that's a fact

[00:02:13] He's got a yaller streak a-runnin' down his back

[00:02:15] He doesn't have to stool, he'll always get along

[00:02:20] On what he takes out of blind men's cups

[00:02:26] You got a union now, and you're sittin' pretty

[00:02:28] Put some of the boys on the steering committee

[00:02:30] The boss won't listen when one guy squawks

[00:02:32] But he's got to listen when the union talks

[00:02:34] He'd better, be mighty lonely

[00:02:38] Everybody decide to walk out on him

[00:02:41] Suppose they're working you so hard it's just outrageous

[00:02:44] And they're paying you all starvation wages

[00:02:46] You go to the boss and the boss would yell

[00:02:48] "Before I raise your pay I'd see you all in hell."

[00:02:50] Well, he's puffing a big cigar, feeling mighty slick

[00:02:52] 'Cause he thinks he's got your union licked

[00:02:54] Well, he looks out the window and what does he see

[00:02:56] But a thousand pickets, and they all agree

[00:02:59] He's a bastard, unfair, slavedriver

[00:03:04] Bet he beats his wife

[00:03:07] Now, boys, you've come to the hardest time

[00:03:09] The boss will try to bust your picket line

[00:03:11] He'll call out the police, the National Guard

[00:03:14] They'll tell you it's a crime to have a union card

[00:03:16] They'll raid your meetin', they'll hit you on the head

[00:03:18] They'll call every one of you a goddam red

[00:03:20] Unpatriotic, Japanese spies, sabotaging national defense

[00:03:25] But out at Ford, here's what they found

[00:03:29] And out at Vultee, here's what they found

[00:03:32] And out at Allis-Chalmers, here's what they found

[00:03:33] And down at Bethlehem, here's what they found

[00:03:37] That if you don't let red-baiting break you up

[00:03:40] And if you don't let stoolpigeons break you up

[00:03:42] And if you don't let vigilantes break you up

[00:03:44] And if you don't let race hatred break you up

[00:03:47] You'll win. What I mean, take it easy, but take it