All You Fonies

Come all you friends and workers

A tale I'll tell to you

Of how we built our union

You call the NMU

We fought the goons and gun thugs

Around the ocean shores

I guess I got my head caved in

A dozen times or more

All you fonies

Bound to lose

All you fonies

Bound to lose

All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose

You had a phony set up

You called the SIU

We had a ratty ship and a crummy bunk

With roaches in our stew

We fought against the weather

And the stooges too

To win a clean bunk and mess hall

For newly-comes like you

All you fonies

Bound to lose

All you fonies

Bound to lose

All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose

All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose

For me to try to change this whole big mess around by myself

I wouldn't last longer than a snowball in hell

But there's a hundred thousand of me now

And we fought like hell to get here

So you fight like hell to keep what we shed blood to earn

For eight hours a day and overtime pay

We battled it out with you big shot men

We've seen times that looked pretty dark

Until we brought the union in

All you fonies

Bound to lose

All you fonies

Bound to lose

All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose

All you fonies

Bound to lose

All you fonies

Bound to lose

All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose

All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose

All you fonies, you're bound to lose, lose, lose