Songs of the Workers (15th edition)/Dump the Bosses off your Back
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DUMP THE BOSSES OFF YOUR BACK
(Tune: "Take It to the Lord in Prayer")
By John Brill
Are you poor, forlorn and hungry?
Are there lots of things you lack?
Is your life made up of misery?
Then dump the bosses off your back.
Are your clothes all patched and tattered?
Are you living in a shack?
Would you have your troubles scattered?
Then dump the bosses off your back.
Are you almost split asunder?
Loaded like a long-eared jack?
Boob—why don't you buck like thunder?
And dump the bosses off your back.
All the agonies you suffer,
You can end with one good whack—
Stiffen up, you orn'ry duffer—
And dump the bosses off your back.
One Big Union tactics are simply the efficiency system applied to the class struggle.
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