‘Solidarity Forever’

When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run,
There shall be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
But the union makes us strong.

CHORUS:
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong!

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong.

CHORUS
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong.

Ralph Chaplin, an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, wrote “Solidarity Forever” in 1915.

Sung to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," the six-verse song has become the anthem of the American labor movement.

These are the three most commonly sung verses.