All You Fonies
Come all ye friends and workers
I'll tell a tale to you
Of how we built the union
You call the NMU
We fought the goons and gun-thugs
Around the ocean shores
I guess I got my head caved in
A dozen times a more
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
You had a bony setup
You called the SIU
We had a ratty ship and a crummy bunk
With roaches in our stew
We fought against the weather
And the stooges too
To win a clean bunk and mess hall
For newly comes like you
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
For me to try to change this whole big mess around by myself
I wouldn't last longer than a snowball in hell
But there's a hundred thousand of me now
And we fought like hell to get here
So you fight like hell to keep what we shed blood to earn
For eight hours a day and overtime pay
We battled it out with you big shot men
We've seen times that looked pretty dark
Until we brought the union in
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose (yeah!)
I'll tell a tale to you
Of how we built the union
You call the NMU
We fought the goons and gun-thugs
Around the ocean shores
I guess I got my head caved in
A dozen times a more
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
You had a bony setup
You called the SIU
We had a ratty ship and a crummy bunk
With roaches in our stew
We fought against the weather
And the stooges too
To win a clean bunk and mess hall
For newly comes like you
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
For me to try to change this whole big mess around by myself
I wouldn't last longer than a snowball in hell
But there's a hundred thousand of me now
And we fought like hell to get here
So you fight like hell to keep what we shed blood to earn
For eight hours a day and overtime pay
We battled it out with you big shot men
We've seen times that looked pretty dark
Until we brought the union in
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies (bound to lose)
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose (yeah!)
Credits
Writer(s): Timothy Brennan, Jeff Darosa, James Lynch, Kenneth Casey, Mathew Kelly, Woody Guthrie
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Link
Altri album
- Live At Ryman Auditorium - Single
- Okemah Rising
- Gotta Get To Peekskill (feat. Violent Femmes)
- I Know How It Feels
- This Machine Still Kills Fascists (Expanded Edition)
- Cadillac, Cadillac (feat. Sammy Amara of Broilers)
- This Machine Still Kills Fascists
- All You Fonies
- Ten Times More
- Two 6's Upside Down
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