Songs
A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over; and I maintain that if a person can put a few cold, common sense facts into a song, and dress them up in a cloak of humor to take the dryness off of them, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers. -Joe Hill
Which Side Are You On
8/29/2010
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Lyrics
Come all of you good workers
Good news to you I'll tell
Of how that good old union
Has come in here to dwell
Chorus
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
My daddy was a miner
And I'm a miner's son
And I'll stick with the union
Till every battle's won
repeat chorus ...
They say in Harlan County
There are no neutrals there
You'll either be a union man
Or a thug for J.H. Blair
repeat chorus ...
Oh, workers can you stand it?
Oh, tell me how you can
Will you be a lousy scab
Or will you be a man?
repeat chorus ...
Don't scab for the bosses
Don't listen to their lies
Us poor folks haven't got a chance
Unless we organize
By Florence Patton Reece
