Kristian von Svensson

"En självklar estradör i både mellansnack och visleveranser"

Sydsvenska Dagbladet

7.    The O.B.U.

Taken from the upcoming musical The Man Who Never Died

Words & Music by Kristian Svensson

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I'm called Elizabeth or Miss Gurley-Flynn

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Well Sir, the O.B.U. means One Big Union

We're known as "wobblies" and you just might have heard

Of the Industrial Workers of the World:

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One union grand for all working people to stand as one

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If you are homeless we are your home

We're one big family wherever you roam

Beyond the pearly gate no sinners get in

And the old unions don't like dark colored skin

They won't accept you if you're foreign and unskilled

No, we are the migrant worker's shield, sword and guild

One union grand for all working people to stand as one

If you are homeless...

When you're mistreated we strike with you

And if we all did there is nothing we can't do...

Give me your poor and huddled masses!

Get off your asses and abolish classes!