When the union's inspiration 
through the workers' blood [bad word] 
There can be no power greater 
anywhere beneath the sun;
Yet what force on earth is weaker 
than the feeble strength of one?
But the union makes us strong.

Refrain:
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong.

Is there aught we hold [bad word] 
with the greedy parasite,
Who would lash us into serfdom 
and would [bad word] us with his might?
Is there anything left to us 
but to organize and fight?
For the union makes us strong.

Refrain.
It is we who plowed the prairies; 
built the cities where they trade;
Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;
Now we stand outcast and starving 
midst the wonders we have made;
But the union makes us strong.

Refrain.

All the world that's owned by idle drones 
is ours and ours alone.
We have laid the wide foundations; 
built it skyward stone by stone.
It is ours, not to slave in, 
but to master and to own.
While the union makes us strong.

Refrain.
They have taken untold millions 
that they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle 
not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power, 
gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong.

Refrain.

In our hands is placed a power 
greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies, 
magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world 
from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong.