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Robin Landseadel
robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Tue Oct 13 15:12:12 CDT 2009
The Wednesday night bluegrass sessions I play at often work up an
alternate [but similar] version of that song. I just play guitar so
it's all I's, IV's & V's to me.
On Oct 13, 2009, at 1:07 PM, rich wrote:
> heard this song a few weeks back--one of the NY off the dial stations
> was playing plenty of great union songs and this one I remember from
> Woody
>
> There once was a union maid, she never was afraid
> Of goons and ginks and company finks and the deputy sheriffs who
> made the raid.
> She went to the union hall when a meeting it was called,
> And when the Legion boys come 'round
> She always stood her ground.
>
> CHORUS:
> 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 'til the day 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:
>
> CHORUS
>
> You gals who want to be free, just take a 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,
> A union man has a happy life when he's got a union wife.
>
> CHORUS
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