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Composer: Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie - Union Maid lyrics



UNION MAID
(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
Copyright Ludlow Music, Inc.
@union @work @political
filename[ UNIONMD
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RG
===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY
Songs list of album: We Ain't Down Yet! (1994)
         Title Rating
01    Prophet Singer lyrics Add lyrics   -
02    Build Me a World lyrics Add lyrics   -
03    Loneliness lyrics Add lyrics   -
04    All of Us lyrics Add lyrics   -
05    Wet Pair of Shoes lyrics Add lyrics   -
06    Dear Mrs. Roosevelt lyrics Add lyrics   -
07   Union Maid lyrics   -
08    Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) lyrics Add lyrics   -
09    So Long (It's Been Good to Know Yuh) lyrics Add lyrics   -
10    Great Historical Bum lyrics Add lyrics   -
11    Born to Win lyrics Add lyrics   -
12    Grand Coulee Dam lyrics Add lyrics   -
13    We Ain't Down Yet lyrics Add lyrics   -
14    Love Tonic lyrics Add lyrics   -
15    This Train Is Bound for Glory lyrics Add lyrics   -
16    Kids lyrics Add lyrics   -
17    My Daddy (Flies a Ship in the Sky) lyrics Add lyrics   -
18    Letter to Will Geer lyrics Add lyrics   -
19    Going Down the Road Feeling Bad lyrics Add lyrics   -
20    Singing Cricket lyrics Add lyrics   -
 

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