[VERSE 1]
Would you have freedom from wage slavery?
Then join in the grand Industrial band.
Would you from mis’ry and hunger be free.
Then come, do your share, lend a hand.
[Chorus]
There is pow’r, there is pow’r in a band of working folk.
When they stand hand in hand
That’s a pow’r, that’s a pow’r that must rule in every land
One Industrial Union Grand
[VERSE 2}
Would you have mansions of gold in the sky,
And live in a shack, way in the back?
Would you have wings up in heaven to fly,
And starve here with rags on your back?
[Chorus]
There is pow’r, there is pow’r in a band of working folk.
When they stand hand in hand
That’s a pow’r, that’s a pow’r that must rule in every land
One Industrial Union Grand
[VERSE 3]
If you’ve had ‘nuf of the “blood of the lamb,”
Then join in the grand Industrial band;
If for a change, you would have eggs and ham,
Then come, do your share, lend a hand.
[Chorus]
There is pow’r, there is pow’r in a band of working folk.
When they stand hand in hand
That’s a pow’r, that’s a pow’r that must rule in every land
One Industrial Union Grand
[VERSE 4]
If you like sluggers to beat off your head,
Then don’t organize, all unions despise.
If you want nothing before you are dead.
Shake hands with your boss and look wise.
[Chorus]
There is pow’r, there is pow’r in a band of working folk.
When they stand hand in hand
That’s a pow’r, that’s a pow’r that must rule in every land
One Industrial Union Grand
[VERSE 5]
Come, all ye workers, from every land. Come, join in the grand Industrial band; Then we our share of this earth shall demand. Come on! Do your share. Lend a hand.
[Chorus]
There is pow’r, there is pow’r in a band of working folk.
When they stand hand in hand
That’s a pow’r, that’s a pow’r that must rule in every land
One Industrial Union Grand