There Is Power In A Union Lyrics - Live At The Union Chapel - Billy Bragg

There is power in a factory, power in the land 

Power in the hands of a worker 

But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand 

There is power in a union 

Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers' blood 

The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for 

From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud 

War has always been the bosses' way, sir 

The Union forever defending our rights 

Down with the blackleg, all workers unite 

With our brothers and our sisters from many far off lands 

There is power in a union 

Now I long for the morning that they realise 

Brutality and unjust laws can not defeat us 

But who'll defend the workers who cannot organise 

When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us? 

Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own 

Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone 

What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child 

There is power in a union 

The Union forever defending our rights 

Down with the blackleg, all workers unite 

With our brothers and our sisters from many far off lands 

There is power in a union