i guess i planted

i guess i planted some long lonesome seed of a song

way down inside me long ago

and now i can't remember when it was

but it joined up with the rest of them and grows

it's such a little song

it don't compare

with all your big ones you hear everywhere

but when it dawns way in the back of your mind

the big ones are made up of the little kind

union song

union battled

all added up

won us all what we got now

union song

union battled

all added up

won us all what we got now

i can't even start to look around me here

without hearing this song

and seeing all of us first separated

hurt

apart and afraid

hungry for the union

so we kept on

singing and working

fighting till we got it

and this is the big union song i guess i hear

union song

union battled

all added up

won us all what we got now

union song

union battled

all added up

won us all what we got now

now

now

now. we fought there at your place

we fought there on your ship

and i guess if you missed out on the fight for our union

you missed out on one awful big step

us people took

now

now

now. union song

union battled

all added up

won us all what we got now

union song

union battled

all added up

won us all what we got now

union song

union battled

all added up

won us all what we got now

union song

union battled

all added up

won us all what we got now