Category: Labor
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Niketown, My Niketown
Tune: Chinatown, My ChinatownWords: Georgie Kunkel Niketown, my NiketownWe love all your wareWhen we strut in NIKE sneaksNothing can compare Little girls in East TimorBrutalized, enslavedJust so machos here at homeWalk on streets gold-paved. Niketown my…
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Which Side Are You On?
old hymn tune, adapted by Kay Thode Come all of you good workers, Good news to you I’ll tell Of how the good old union Has come in here to dwell Chorus: Which side are you…
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Union Maid
tune: Redwing Words by Woodie Guthrie There once was a union maid Who never was afraid Of the goons and the ginks and the company finks And the deputy sheriffs who made the raid. She went…
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Solidarity Forever
tune: John Brown’s Body The People’s Songbook 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…
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Put It on the Ground
Words, Ray Glaser; Music, Bill Wolff; Copyright 1937, People’s Songs, Inc. Oh, if you want a raise in pay, all you have to do, Go and ask the boss for it, and he will give it…
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Nike Town
tune: Chinatown, My Chinatown by Kay Thode Nike shoes and Starbucks beans Make millions a day But workers who produce them Get starvation pay. One dollar fifty a day Is the workers take For the hundred…
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15 Now
Tune: Sixteen TonsBy Jo-Hanna Read Chorus:Work for minimum wage and what do you get?Another day older and deeper in debt.The poverty level is more than you earn.While the company bosses have money to burn! You work…
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There’s No Business Like Clothes Business
by Shirley Morrison tune: There’s No Business Like Show Business There’s no business like clothes business, The best business we know. New clothes are so hip and sexy! Throw out last year’s wardrobe, toss it all!…
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Saints- Labor
tune: When the Saints Come Marching In When workers rise and organize When workers rise and organize, How I want to be in the number, When workers rise and organize. Variations: When the union’s voice is…