I Guess I Planted

I guess I planted some long lonesome seed of a song
 Way down inside me long ago
 And now I can't remember when it was
 But it joined up with the rest of them and grows
 It's such a little song it don't compare
 With all your big ones you hear everywhere
 But when it dawns way in the back of your mind
 The big ones are made up of the little kind
 Union song, union battled
 All added up won us all what we got now
 Union song, union battled
 All added up won us all what we got now
 I can't even start to look around me here
 Without hearing this song
 And seeing all of us first separated
 Hurt apart and afraid
 Hungry for the union
 And so we kept on
 Singing and working, fighting till we got it
 And this is the big union song I guess I hear
 Union song, union battled
 All added up won us all what we got now
 Union song, union battled
 All added up won us all what we got now
 We fought there at your place
 We fought there on your ship
 And I guess if you missed out on
 The fight for our union
 You missed out on one awful big step
 Us people took
 Union song, union battled
 All added up won us all what we got now
 Union song, union battled
 All added up won us all what we got now
 Union song, union battled
 All added up won us all what we got now
 Union song, union battled
 All added up won us all what we got now