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texas textbooks - not the ballad of emma tenayuca lyrics

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the sh-llers can’t believe they’ve cut their wages
hunched together in the cracking plant
end of one more grueling week
plan to go see emma speak
she tells them it’s their right to take a stand

she waves her fist and talks about their labor
about women like them who fought finck cigars
the mexican worker stands oppressed
our culture robbed language suppressed
not even labor is rightfully ours

women formed into committees
no way forward until you lead yourself
better our own power then someone’s else’s help
she says

the sh-llers lining up on zarzamora
marching down casiano way
crowd shouts 7 cents a lb
50 per 100 lbs broken down
no overtime without corresponding pay

chief kilday has called for reinforcements
sent riot squads to the westside
strike begins at 7 o’clock
arrests made on the sidewalk
just as soon talk them all in

picked up leandro avila
arrest mrs. brooks and take her downtown
don’t want reds mixed up with what is going down
around here

emma tenayuca no one’s trying to make an idol
of you / it’s for the union, for the workers and
what they do

members meet at pecos and matamoros
shelters cram into the union hall
in the back they start to shout
we have to go get emma out
pick on her you pick on us all

a group marches to the police station
it’s time the other half of town know
put the red bait rumors all to rest
she works with us at our request
we demand you let la pasionera go

clarions of reaction
the coc archbishop and vigilance committee
downplay the numbers of those rising up in the city
in the light

emma tenayuca no one’s trying to make an idol of you / it’s for the union, for the workers and what they do

30 days of tear gas and har-ssment
ban on picketers and closed kitchen doors
but the strikers hold fast to their station
governor calls for arbitration
c.i.o. managers and the mayor

six more busted for their banners on colima
kilday worries the govner’ll call for marshal law
cops admit to too much gas
announce a settlements about to p-ss
to overflowed meeting at the hall

collective bargain
nothing works so good you know
emma’s the one who told us so

emma tenayuca no one’s trying to make an idol of you / it’s for the union, for the workers and what they do

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