WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON - Florence Reece - Natalie Merchant (HQ Lyrics)

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
Florence Reece - Natalie Merchant (HQ Lyrics - Chords)
Original Release (2008 - ROCK THE VOTE) 45741 views
Updated to HQ in May of 2010

Dedicated to the family and friends of miners everywhere who have paid the ultimate price. And more recently to the victims in the Massey Coal Mine Disaster.

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?

Florence Reece - Natalie Merchant. Sing just some of the "Words That Changed America". This Union Song was written by Florence Reece in 1930 - 1931 while mine owners were terrorizing coal workers in bloody Harlan County.

Natlie Merchant - From - The House Carpenter's Daughter - Released in 2003. This song was written by Florence Reece in the 1930's when big business and big money were terrorizing the working man. Florence Reece introduced it to the UMW (United Mine Workers) in the 1930's in protest. Natlie Merchant later covered it in her Album - "The House Carpenter's Daughter". Still today the Middle Class struggles to survive while Politicians conveniently remain "Out of Touch" with working America while Big Money and Big Business working in concert; Work to the demise of Middle Class America, sometimes by default and others by design.

Which Side Are You On?
Florence Reese

Come all of you good workers
Good news to you I'll tell
Of how that good old union
Has come in here to dwell
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
My daddy was a miner
And I'm a miner's son
And I'll stick with the union
Till every battle's won
They say in Harlan County
There are no neutrals there
You'll either be a union man
Or a thug for J.H. Blair
Oh, workers can you stand it?
Oh, tell me how you can
Will you be a lousy scab
Or will you be a man?
Don't scab for the bosses
Don't listen to their lies
Us poor folks haven't got a chance
Unless we organize
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

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(Quote from Chaucer)
Madame ye ben the shrine of beaute rounde
As fer a circled is the mapamounde
for as the cristal glorious ye shine.

Glory to the working class!!
ERIN GO BRAU!
Ill sing you a song of a row in the town

Éirinn go brách!

Condolences to Family and Friends of the those who have passed.

All the best to you and yours.

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[3muimui]

Will you be a lousy scab

Or will you be a man?

Which side are you on boys?

Which side are you on? ...............

Great song!

Thank you for posting! & thanks for introducing this great song to us!

[PMK1002]

fantastic video & song!

nice one ib!!! top marks!

[mItSaKw0w14]

@treatb09 we can't tax them if we don't have the power... and this power can be owned only by violent.

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

-mao

[mItSaKw0w14]

viva greece, united we stand brothers and sisters... we gonna make it through this!! :)

[treatb09]

@manyrivera62 dont kill, TAX

[hitchains]

french revolt?



[aqzilla]

Workers destroy capitalism all over the world!We can win and we 'll win!!!

[manyrivera62]

KILL THE RICH FEED THE POOR

[slicktyler]

@nothingmusic42 sorry but this is a missconception. America produces more products in the US then ever before. Yes there are a lot of jobs that have been shipped over seas but overall we are still producing more in the US.

If we didn't produce as much as we do now we wouldn't have all these union jobs to begin with.

[chelseamaya]

Very haunting melody and strong images. A message that lives on and on.



[ElsaWiener]

@ccpper You should be ashamed of yourself, ccpper. I'm a "union prick" and so was my father. It provided a halfway comfortable lower middle class existence for us. You are obviously an uninformed nasty fool.

[nothingmusic42]

@slicktyler see my response to that moron ccpper...