Woody Guthrie - UNION MAID lyrics

(Woody Guthrie)

There once was a union maid

Who never was afraid

Of goons and ginks and company finks

And deputy sheriffs who made the raids

She went to the union hall

When a meeting it was called,

And when the Legion boys came 'round

She always stood her ground.

cho: Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union,

I'm sticking to the union,I'm sticking to the union

Oh, you can't scare me, I'm sticking to the union,

I'm sticking to the union till theday I die.

This union maid was wise

To the tricks of company spies,

She couldn't be fooled by a company stool

She'd always organize the guys

She always got her way

When she struck for better pay.

She'd show her card to the national guard

And this is what she'd say.

You gals who want to be free

Just take a little tip from me:

Get you a man who's a union man

And join the Ladies' Auxiliary*

Married life ain't hard

When you got a union card,

And a union man has a happy life

When he's got a union wife.

*in the late eighty's wave of revisionism, this became "And fight

together for liberty". Woody never said that. RG

Note: Oddly, this is a parody (political) of a parody (bawdy) of

a pop song of the mid-1800s.RG

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