There Is Power In A Union

Billy Bragg

Tom: G

INTRO:
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Chords:
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There is power in a factory, power in the land
G                                               D Dus4 D
Power in the hand of the worker
G                                             C
But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand
 G                                    D       G
There is power in a Union
 

G                                             C
Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers blood
G                                                                    D Dus4 D
The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for
G                                                            C
From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud
G                                                               D  G
War has always been the bosses way, sir
 

G
The Union forever defending our rights
                                                             D
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
G                                                       C
With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands
G                                D   G
There is power in a Union
 

G                                           C
Now I long for the morning that they realise
G                                                     D Dus4 D
Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us
G                                                C
But who'll defend the workers who cannot organise
G                                                                        D       G
When the bosses send there lackeys out to cheat us?
 

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Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own
                                                                        D
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?
G                                                C
What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child
G                                D  G
There is power in a Union

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The Union forever defending our rights
                                                             D
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
G                                                       C
With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands
G                                D   G
There is power in a Union