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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. | Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite | Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might? | Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight? | For the union makes us strong. | CHORUS | It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade | Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid | Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made | But the union makes us strong. | CHORUS | All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone. | We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone. | It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own. | While the union makes us strong. | CHORUS | 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, multiplied a thousand-fold. | We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old | For the union makes us strong.