Give Back My Factory To Me
Verse 1
Give Back My Factory To Me
Verse 2
First appearence, 36th edition.
Verse 3
My factory lies over the ocean,
Verse 4
My factory lies over the sea.
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My factory lies over the border,
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Please give back my factory to me.
Chorus
Give back, give back, oh give back my factory to me, to me.
Give back, give back, oh give back my factory to me.
My boss didn't make enough money,
Said his workers got too much pay.
Verse 7
He moved his plant to Guatemala,
Where workers get four bucks a day.
The bosses have snowballed the workers,
With bullshit of “Us versus Them.”
Instead of you fighting us bosses,
Verse 8
Fight fellow workers in Japan.
Verse 9
If we let the bosses divide us,
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We'll all end up getting the screw.
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So let's organize One Big Union,
With us and the “foreigners” too.
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So let's organize all the workers
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In one big world-wide union true.
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And then we can tell all the bosses,
From now on it's "Us versus You.”
Verse 15
Thia song was written in 1992 in solidarity with the workers at the
‘Van Heusen shirt-making pleats in Guatemala who were straggling 10
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