UAW
Solidarity House
8000 East Jefferson Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48214
(313) 926-5000
SOLIDARITY
FOREVEVER
(Words: Ralph Chaplin;
Tune Battle Hymn of the Republic)
When the Union's
inspiration through the workers' 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?
But
the Union makes us strong.
CHORUS: Solidarity forever! Solidarity forever! Solidarity forever!
For the Union makes us strong.
It is we who plowed
the prairies, built the cities where they trade,
We built
the mines and workshops, endless miles of railroad laid.
Now,
we stand outcast and starving, mid the wonders we have made.
But the union
makes us strong. (CHORUS)
They have taken
untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
But without
our brain and muscle not a single wheel could turn.
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn-
That the Union makes
us strong. (CHORUS)
In our hands is
places a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the
might of armies magnified a thousand fold.
We
can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old.
For the Union makes
us strong. (CHORUS)
