The Mountain Goats – Solidarity Forever (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
         G
When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run

          C                              G
There can be no power greater 'neath the stars or 'neath the sun

         G                                 Em
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?

        C     D        G
For the union makes us strong
[Chorus]
G
Solidarity forever

C             G
Solidarity forever

G             Em
Solidarity forever

        C     D        G
For the union makes us strong
[Verse 2]
         G
Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite

          C                              G
Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?

         G                          Em
Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?

        C     D        G
For the union makes us strong
[Chorus]
G
Solidarity forever

C             G
Solidarity forever

G             Em
Solidarity forever

        C     D        G
For the union makes us strong
[Verse 3]
        G
All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone

        C                                   G
We have laid the wide foundations, built it skyward stone by stone

      G                            Em
It is ours, not to toil in, but to master and to own

        C     D        G
For the union makes us strong (yeah!)
[Chorus]
G
Solidarity forever

C             G
Solidarity forever

G             Em
Solidarity forever

        C     D        G
For the union makes us strong
[Verse 4]
          G
They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn

        C                              G
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn

       G                                   Em
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn

         C     D        G
That the union makes us strong
[Chorus]
G
Solidarity forever

C             G
Solidarity forever

G             Em
Solidarity forever

        C     D        G
For the union makes us strong
[Verse 5]
       G
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold

        C                              G
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold

       G                                   Em
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old

        C     D        G
For the union makes us strong
[Chorus]
G
Solidarity forever

C             G
Solidarity forever

G             Em
Solidarity forever

        C     D        G
For the union makes us strong (everybody!)

G
Solidarity forever

      C             G
Yeah, solidarity forever

    G             Em
Oh, solidarity forever

        C     D        G      Cadd9 G
For the union makes us strong