Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song I'm Gonna Join That One Big Union (You Gotta Go Down And Join The Union), artist - Woody Guthrie. Album song My Dusty Road, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 31.12.2008
Record label: Concord, Rounder
Song language: English
I'm Gonna Join That One Big Union (You Gotta Go Down And Join The Union) |
You gotta go down and join the union |
You got to join it by yourself |
Ain’t nobody here can join it for you |
You gotta go down and join the union by yourself |
Working in the factories would kill a dog |
Working on the belt line killed your soul |
Working in the limestone and cement quarries withered your lungs |
Working in the cotton mills shot your legs and feet all to hell |
And working in the steel mills burned up your spirit |
Like a gnat that lit in the melting pot |
But out of this whole mixing bowl of hell and high water |
The working folk have marched against Billy clubs |
Against machine guns |
And they sang their way through the whole dirty mess |
Now, the bank men have got their union, and the |
Landlords got their union |
And the finance men got their union |
But down south and out west |
On the cotton farms and working in the orchards and fruit crops |
It’s a jail house offense for a few, common everyday workers |
To form them a union and get together for higher wages |
Honest pay and fair treatment |
You gotta go down and join the union |
You got to join it by yourself |
Ain’t nobody here can join it for you |
You gotta go down and join the union by yourself |