Worker's Song

Worker's Song by the Dropkick Murphys

Yeh, this one's for the workers who toil night and day
By hand and by brain to earn your pay
Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread
Have bled for your countries and counted your dead

In the factories and mills, in the shipyards and mines
We've often been told to keep up with the times
For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job
And with sliderule and stopwatch our pride they have robbed


We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
For the worker is working when the fat cat's about

And when the sky darkens and the prospect is war
Who's given a gun and then pushed to the fore
And expected to die for the land of our birth
Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth?

We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
For the worker is working when the fat cat's about
We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die
The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
And we're always the last when the cream is shared out
For the worker is working when the fat cat's about

All of these things the worker has done
From tilling the fields to carrying the gun
We've been yoked to the plough since time first began
And always expected to carry the can

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• Worker's
• Song
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[dereekee]

@wrath1987 You sound like a Libertarian or Tea Party drone. Without unions your children would be working right next to you. You'd be living in corporate bunks and paid in company scrip. You'd work 14 hours a day and seven days a week. There would be no compensation if you were injured or killed while working. And if you tried to strike you would be beaten by police and Strike Busters. Don't be ignorant.

[maxeb1031]

Stick that in your arse, Scott Walker you fuckin maggot.

[MrKurbsyde]

@MrKurbsyde All your Taxes, look at your last paycheck, all that money taken out from state is going towards these fools.

[MrKurbsyde]

@MrKurbsyde Unions are great at promoting the person within the company who has been there longer, not that they have the skills, but just cause they have been there longer. This is why you get idiots at MATC who don't seem to know a damn thing. They don't need to, they just keep getting paid more cause they have been there longer.

Health Care is fricken awesome for them, but that money comes from us working at minimum wage at McDonalds.

Maybe McDonalds needs a Union?

[MrKurbsyde]

@dereekee The Unions have done great things in the past, but what are they doing now?

Nobody is working 14 hours without it being their choice to.

Speaking of cops beating people, get over that, a protest is one thing a riot is completely different.

There are laws in place to make an eight hour work day mandatory and the minimum wage regulation has gone up.

There is no reason to be told that you MUST pay a third party if you don't want to.

Union dues today are bullshit.

[MrKurbsyde]

@MrKurbsyde "Right to Work" if passed in Wisconsin will only show who is best at their jobs. F the Unions, this is our kids education you're messing with, just so you can get a bunch more money and vacations, and basically free health care.

I'm sorry, but my nieces education means more than your big house!!!

[MrKurbsyde]

Unions built this Nation, but when skilled workers get pasted by cause they are not next on the list, it sucks.

When all that matters is that paycheck, the work gets sloppy, just look at the public schools.

There are so many good teachers, so many (just out of school) who will do better teaching our children, but they haven't given enough in Union dues to get up the chain and keep their jobs.

Not to mention that most of these union presidents have huge houses.

[balkanunited34]

This song should be heard in every worker's strike in Europe these difficult days.Solidarity to every worker,unemployed,immigrant from Greece.LONG LIVE PAME and the working class of my country...

[ballandpaddle]

Scott Walker doesn't want to "kick the can" anymore; he wants the workers to carry it.

[tomfurney]

if this song had got even some air time on the radio it would have been the biggest song ever !!! who cant relate 2 it other then then the ppl. who have the money and power 2 push u around????

[Rubix0517]

@jedyondo I always imagine this big fat ugly cat on a pink chair for some reason

[jedyondo]

The worker should start working to tumble the tyranny of the fat cat.