We Won
By John O'Connor
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We Won By John O’Connor

Deep in the heat of the Salinas Valley (We won x3)
We marched in the picket and we joined in the rally (We won x3)
They had the money and the politicians (We won x3)
We had the people and we had the mission (We won x3)

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Everybody come and join in the union (Begin x3)
Stand and fight together to overcome soon and (We’ll win x3)

We won the boycott of Farah Clothing (We won x3)
It was a battle of fear and loathing (We won x3)
They had the power and they had the riches (We won x3)
Still we got the union label inside their britches (We won x3)

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We won our union at Yale University (We won x3)
We stood in the face of fear and adversity (We won x3)
They had the power of an ivy league college (We won x3)
They had the books but we had the knowledge (We won x3)

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The UPS strike was a big win for labor (We won x3)
We stood on the line and we didn't waiver (We won x3)
They had the big corporations beside them (We won x3)
They had the trucks but they couldn’t drive them (We won x3)

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A great big struggle that the nation had its eyes on (We won x3)
They said we couldn’t win when we struck Verizon (We won x3)
In this day and age a strike is a rarity (We won x3)
We still have a weapon we call solidarity (We won x3)

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