There is Power in a Union - Billy Bragg From the album “Talking with the Taxman About Poetry” - 1986 Based on the melody of the song “Battle Cry of Freedom” The intro riff has been simplified. It doesn’t match exactly what Billy Bragg plays but it is what I like to play [CHORDS] EADGBe GM7/F# 220033 [INTRO Riff] e:-----|------------|------12---------|------------|------------| B:-O-1-|-3--3--1-0------|------13-----O-1-|-3--3--1-0--0-|-0--------0-1-| G:-O-0-|-0--0--0-0--2-0-|------------O-0-|-0--0--0-0--0-|-0-2------0-0-| D:-----|------------0-0-|-2-2------------|------------|---0----------| A:-----|------------|-3-3------------|------------|------------| :-----|------------|------------|------------|------------| B:|-3--3--1-0------|------------|--------0-0-|--------|| G:|-0--0--0-0--2-0-|------------|-0----2-0-0-|-2-0----|| D:|------------0-0-|-2-2-2-----------|-0----0-----|-0-0----|| A:|------------|-3-3-3-----------|------------|---2----|| :|------------|------------|------------|--------|| [VERSE] There is power in a factory power in the land Power in the hand of the worker But it all amounts to nothing if together we don’t stand There is power in a Union [VERSE] Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers blood The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud War has always been the bosses way sir [CHORUS] The Union forever defending our rights Down with the blackleg all workers unite With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands There is power in a Union [VERSE] Now I long for the morning that they realize Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us But who’ll defend the workers who cannot organize? When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us? [CHORUS] Money speaks for money the Devil for his own Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone? What a comfort to the widow a light to the child There is power in a Union [SOLO] - over Chorus Chords [CHORUS] The Union forever defending our rights Down with the blackleg all workers unite With our brothers and our sisters together we will stand There is power in a Union