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A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read.

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Don't waste any time mourning — organize!

I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward.

If the workers took a notion
They could stop all speeding trains;
Every ship upon the ocean
They can tie with mighty chains.

I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.

There is pow'r, there is pow'r
In a band of workingmen.
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.

There is power in a Union (1913)

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