{"id":1651,"date":"2014-06-08T11:34:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T18:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:44:18","slug":"union-maid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/union-maid\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Maid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><em>tune: Redwing<\/em><br>\n<em>Words by Woodie Guthrie<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There once was a union maid<br>\nWho never was afraid<br>\nOf the goons and the ginks and the company finks<br>\nAnd the deputy sheriffs who made the raid.<br>\nShe went to the union hall<br>\nWhen a meeting it was called,<br>\nAnd when the company boys came round<br>\nShe always stood her ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Chorus:<br> Oh, you can\u2019t scare me, I\u2019m stickin\u2019 to the union,<br> I\u2019m stickin\u2019 to the union, I\u2019m stickin\u2019 to the union.<br> Oh, you can\u2019t scare me, I\u2019m stickin\u2019 to the union,<br> I\u2019m stickin\u2019 to the union \u2018til the day I die.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This union maid was wise<br> To the tricks of the company spies.<br> She couldn\u2019t be fooled by the company stools\u2014<br> She\u2019d always organize the guys.<br> She\u2019d always get her way<br> When she struck for higher pay.<br> She\u2019d show her card to the company guard,<br> And this is what she\u2019d say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Chorus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You women who want to be free<br> Take a little tip from me:<br> Break outa that mold we\u2019ve all been sold\u2014<br> You got a fighting history!<br> The fight for women\u2019s rights<br> With workers must unite.<br> Like Mother Jones, move those bones<br> To the front of every fight!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Chorus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We modern union maids<br> Are also not afraid<br> To walk the line, leave our jobs behind,<br> And we\u2019re not just the Ladies Aid!<br> We fight for equal pay,<br> And we will have our say.<br> We\u2019re workers too, the same as you,<br> And fight the union way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Chorus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There once was a union maid Who never was afraid Of the goons and the ginks and the company finks And the deputy sheriffs who made the raid. She went to the union hall When a meeting it was called, And when the company boys came round She always stood her ground. This union maid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}