Solidarity Forever

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(Well, this is the longest session I've ever been in my life)
 (And my voice is about to fall apart)
 (So I'm gonna sing the last one, rather we are)
 (I bet if I was to make book right now, 'bout what that song was)
 (I wouldn't make very much money)
 (You're right)
 (Mm-hmm?)
 (Which one is it?)
 (Solidarity)
 (Well, alright I mean what the hell?)
 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
 Solidarity forever
 Solidarity forever
 Solidarity forever
 For the union makes us strong
 Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite?
 Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?
 Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?
 For the union makes us strong
 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
 Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid
 We stand outcast and starving, midst the wonders we have made
 But the union makes us strong
 Solidarity forever
 Solidarity forever
 Solidarity forever
 For the union makes us strong
 All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone
 We have laid the wide foundations, built it skyward stone by stone
 It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own
 While the union makes us strong
 Solidarity forever
 Solidarity forever
 Solidarity forever
 For the union makes us strong
 They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn
 But without our brain and muscle, not a single wheel can turn
 We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
 That the union makes us strong
 Solidarity forever
 Solidarity forever
 Solidarity forever
 For the union makes us strong
 In our hands is placed 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
 Solidarity forever
 Solidarity forever
 Solidarity forever
 For the union makes us strong
 

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Duration
04:29
Key
8
Tempo
105 BPM

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