Hospital Workers
Tune: Stars and Stripes Forever
Lyrics: Paul McKenna
We're hospital workers out on strike
Struggling to make a decent living
Fighting the bosses and the scabs
And we are not about to give in.
We're demanding living wages,
We gotta get a raise!
We gotta get a raise!
Our wages are outrageous
We gotta get a raise NOW!
Oh, we're out walking on the picket line
And we're ready to keep on walking.
And to carry around our picket signs
Til the management sits down to do some talking
When they hear us singing Solidarity Forever
(Yes, the union makes us strong.)
With our voices proudly raised in harmony together.
(Come and sing our union song.)
We shall overcome the opposition
Of the hospital employers.
We shall not be moved by their injunctions
And their high-priced downtown lawyers.
Our enthusiasm won't diminish
We are in the battle 'til we finish.
Til the bosses hear what we are saying
Realize that we're not playing
We'll stay out in the heat and the cold
Through the wind and the rain and the weather.
Our union is going to prevail.
Stick together and we won't fail.
We'll stand hand in hand unified
And we won't let the scabs and bosses bust us.
With courage and spirit and pride
We will unite to wage the fight
For Bread and Justice. Hey!
