The song There Is Power In A Union is performed by Billy Bragg in the album named Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg in the year 2003 .
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 realize
Brutality and unjust laws can not defeat us
But who'll defend the workers, who cannot organize
When the bosses send their lackies 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, together we will stand
There is power in a union
Billy Bragg - Must I Paint You a Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg
- St Swithin's Day
- Levi Stubbs' Tears
- Walk Away Renee
- Greetings To The New Brunette
- There Is Power In A Union
- Help Save The Youth Of America
- The Warmest Room
- Must I Paint You A Picture
- Valentine's Day Is Over
- Sexuality
- Cindy Of 1000 Lives
- Moving The Goalposts
- Tank Park Salute
- You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
- Accident Waiting To Happen (Red Stars Version)
- Sulk
- Upfield
- The Fourteenth Of February
- Brickbat
- The Space Race Is Over
- The Boy Done Good
- Ingrid Bergman
- Way Over Yonder In The Morning Key
- My Flying Saucer
- All You Fascists Bound To Lose (Blokes Version)
- NPWA
- St. Monday
- Somedays I See The Point
- Take Down The Union Jack (Band Version)