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<big>'''Entertainment Workers IU 630: “There is Power in a Union”'''</big>
:By Joe Hill

<br>''(Tune: "There Is Power in the Blood")''

<br>Would you have freedom from wage slavery, 
<br>Then join in the grand Industrial band;
<br>Would you from mis'ry and hunger be free, 
<br>Then come! Do your share, like a man.

<br>CHORUS
<br>There is pow'r, there is pow'r
<br>In a band of workingmen,
<br>When they stand hand in hand,
<br>That's a pow'r, that's a pow'r
<br>That must rule in every land-
<br>One Industrial Union Grand.

<br>Would you have mansions of gold in the sky, 
<br>And live in a shack, way in the back?
<br>Would you have wings up in heaven to fly, 
<br>And starve here with rags on your back?

<br>If you've had "nuff" of "the blood of the lamb" 
<br>Then join in the grand Industrial band;
<br>If, for a change, you would have eggs and ham, 
<br>Then come, do your share, like a man.

<br>If you like sluggers to beat off your head, 
<br>Then don't organize, all unions despise,
<br>if you want nothing before you are dead, 
<br>Shake hands with your boss and look wise.

<br>Come, all ye workers, from every land, 
<br>Come, join in the grand Industrial band,
<br>Then we our share of this earth shall demand. 
<br>Come on! Do your share, like a man.


[http://www.laborarts.org/exhibits/iww/strike_song.cfm link to hear song]