Solidarity Forever

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When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
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There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;
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Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
        Am    D7       G
But the union makes us strong.

[Chorus]
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Solidarity forever,
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Solidarity forever,
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Solidarity forever,
        Am    D7       G
For the union makes us strong.

[Verse 2]
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Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite,
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Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?
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Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?
        Am    D7       G
For the union makes us strong.

[Chorus]
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Solidarity forever,
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Solidarity forever,
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Solidarity forever,
        Am    D7       G
For the union makes us strong.

[Verse 3]
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It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade;
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Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;
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Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made;
        Am    D7       G
But the union makes us strong.

[Chorus]
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Solidarity forever,
C          G
Solidarity forever,
G       B7 Em
Solidarity forever,
        Am    D7       G
For the union makes us strong.

[Verse 4]
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All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone.
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We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone.
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It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own.
          Am    D7       G
While the union makes us strong.

[Chorus]
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Solidarity forever,
C          G
Solidarity forever,
G       B7 Em
Solidarity forever,
        Am    D7       G
For the union makes us strong.

[Verse 5]
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They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
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But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
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We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
         Am    D7       G
That the union makes us strong.

[Chorus]
G
Solidarity forever,
C          G
Solidarity forever,
G       B7 Em
Solidarity forever,
        Am    D7       G
For the union makes us strong.

[Verse 6]
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In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
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Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
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We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
        Am    D7       G
For the union makes us strong.

[Chorus]
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Solidarity forever,
C          G
Solidarity forever,
G       B7 Em
Solidarity forever,
        Am    D7       G
For the union makes us strong.