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David Rovics
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I stand here in Lawrence, a town that used to be a city
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Filled with union women and men
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Now all the mills are gone and the story seems so distant
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How such a thing could happen again
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A hundred years ago battles raged here
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You could get shot down for speaking in the street
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They sent in migrants from all across Europe
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So we had 26 languages, 52 seats
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(Chorus)
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The fight was long and bloody
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But at times it seemed that we had won
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Now when I look to the horizon I still see a new dawn
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But the battle has just begun
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And our watchword was for men and women of all nations
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To struggle together as one
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So that all around the globe, wherever they may toil
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A union worker could see the rising sun
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Long before the mills closed down this was the center of the storm
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The beacon for the way things could be
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The eight-hour day, worker's compensation
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Health care and social security
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(Chorus)
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Now some would say our enemies
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Are the hungry children in the mills of Mexico
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But I say if the robber barons can move their business away
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Then that is where the union needs to go
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'Cause here the mills have come and gone
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And what once appeared to be foundations, turned out to be a rug
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Pulled out from underneath us
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Like someone turning on the lights, then pulling out the plug
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Because there was a time we organized
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Workers from every corner of the earth, throughout this entire nation
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At that time many said it couldn't be done
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But we rose to meet the situation
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And now some will say it can't be done
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For the labor movement to be a global fight
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And those are the people who have forgotten
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That the workers of the world must unite
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(Chorus)
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