Come gather fellow workers, I won’t detain you long
Please join me now in singing some new words to an old song
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
The Speaker and his cronies I wish that they’d confess
They do not care for rights or jobs, it’s right to work for less.
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
When they use terms like “right to work” we know that they are lyin’
There’s nothing pow’rful as the truth that we’ll defeat O’Brien.
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
We’re Democrats, Republicans and also Independents
We in it for our children, and also their descendants.
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
We’re in it for the long haul, sincerely and most fully,
We won’t give up our human rights, we won’t cave in to bullies.
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
The right to work committee came up here from Virginia,
Let’s send them home by singing with the power you’ve got in ya’.
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
We know the labor movement was not built in a day
We built it strong, our mem’ry’s long, the union’s here to stay.
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
3 woots for Arnie “Guthrie”!
[...] Two months ago I posted NH Slim’s new version of “Which Side Are You On?,” adapted for the struggles at the New Hampshire State House. Slim penned another version a few years ago for a Passover Seder. It goes like this: [...]