I guess I planted some long lonesome

seed of a song

Way down inside me long ago

And now I can't remember when it was

But it joined up with the rest of them and grows

It's such a little song it don't compare

With all your big ones you hear everywhere

But when it dawns way in the back of your mind

The big ones are made up of the little kind



Union song. Union battled.

All added up. Won us what we got now



I can't even start to look around me here

Without hearing this song

And seeing all of us first separated,

Hurt, apart and afraid

And hungry for the union

And so we kept on

Singing and working, fighting till we got it.

And this is the big union song I guess I hear.



We fought there at your place

We fought there on your ship

And I guess if you missed out on

the fight for our union,

You missed out on one awful big step

Us people took.



WORDS: Woody Guthrie - MUSIC: Billy Bragg