Wobblies From Space chords by Leslie Fish

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♫ Intro:

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♫ Verse :
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Listen and I'll tell you a tale I've been told
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of a union organizer who knocked a starship cold.
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They met where the stars are scattered thin out on the galactic rim
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And Starfleet command is sorry that they ever ran into him.

♫ Chorus:
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Fold up your guns
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Run while you can.
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Look out, here comes the union man.

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Now the ship was patrolling rim stars when she got a call for aid
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And up come a local convoy in a hurried grim parade.
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Saying, "Captain we've caught a monster who's too much for us by far
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So take him please and throw him in the heart of the nearest star"


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Fold up your guns
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Run while you can.
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Look out, here comes the union man.


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"Just why do you need a whole convoy " the Captain wished to know.
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"Three ships to guard the other lest he grab it as we go."
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Now the Captain was intrigued and he said, "stand by for scan,"
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But all that showed on the viewing screen was a little old union man


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Fold up your guns
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Run while you can.
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Look out, here comes the union man.


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The Captain said, "I can take him," and he beamed the man aboard
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The convoy turned and raced away crying "Thank the Lord!"
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Then the Captain looked him over asking, "just what's going on
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That they sent out half their trading fleet just to make sure you were gone "


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Fold up your guns
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Run while you can.
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Look out, here comes the union man.


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The little old man just chuckled saying "Captain don't you know?
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My job is organizing wherever I may go.
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And I can build me a union out of anything you got
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And the folks who run that planet well they disliked that a lot"


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Fold up your guns
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Run while you can.
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Look out, here comes the union man.


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"I first organized the laborers
Then I unionized the clerks
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Then I unionized the robots who staffed the atomic works.
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But when I organized the milk cows and led them out on strike
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Well you can guess what official reaction to that was like"


Wha-ha-ha!


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Fold up your guns
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Run while you can.
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Look out, here comes the union man.



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"Amazing," said the Captain, "but you cant do that in here
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My crew are loyal navy men and we've no cause to fear."
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But he heard the old man saying as he walked out the door
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"Captain, y'know, there have so been navy unions before"

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Fold up your guns
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Run while you can.
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Look out, here comes the union man.

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Well the Captain soon forgot him setting course for Starbase Five.
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For all he saw the union man he might never have been alive
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Till a troubled ensign asked him "is it true sir what they say?
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That we've got high hazard duty without high hazard pay "

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Fold up your guns
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Run while you can.
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Look out, here comes the union man.

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Well the Captain couldn't answer except to say "its true
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Starfleet could pay you better but theres not much I can do."
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But when he woke up next morning he found out what morale was like
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For the bridge was filled with pickets and the whole crew was on strike.


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Fold up your guns
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Run while you can.
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Look out, here comes the union man.


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Then the union man walked up and said "I'm sorry to trouble you
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But your ship is now a job shop of the I double-W.
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We've sent our demands to Starfleet command and they said they'd grant us none
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So we're just gonna keep on sailing until this strike is won."

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Fold up your guns
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Run while you can.
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Look out, here comes the union man.


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"Now further we've decided to run this co-op style
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Giving everyone experience at each other's job awhile.
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We like you too much to dump you at the first starbase we see
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But we voted you to the galley and this week's command to me."

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Fold up your guns
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Run while you can.
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Look out, here comes the union man.

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So somewhere down in the galley you'll find poor Captain Kirk
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Scrubbing away on dishes swearing it'll never work.
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And Spock as he dries those dishes says, "It might succeed I fear
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And please
Sir, while you're washing don't splash water in my ear."

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Fold up your guns
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Run while you can.
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Look out, here comes the union man.