Standing on the picket line.

Standing on the picket line.

Standing on the picket line,
With an oil drum burning coal,
Standing all together,
shoulder too shoulder
Friends neighbours and family.
Solidarity.

Standing on the picket line,
Fighting for what we believe,
Shoulder too shoulder with our Friends neighbors and family.
We’re fighting for jobs and our livelihood.
This is our revolution
Solidarity

Standing on the picket line.
Sold my wedding ring today, to feed my family
Winters closing in now, yet we’re still standing tall
Shoulder to shoulder, for our fathers sons and men.

Standing on the picket line,
Breaking down our furniture to warm my family 
My son got arrested for hitting a copper in the head.
Fighting for his future, his family his livelihood.

Standing on the picket line 
Sold my wedding ring today, for medicine for my bairn 
We’ve only been out a year on this cold and stormy sea.
Yet we all still standing shoulder to shoulder 
on this ship named solidarity.

Standing on the picket line 
Trying to make ends meet.
When will this revolution ever fucking end.
We’re standing for our family’s
We’re standing for our sons 
We’re stranding for future and our livelihood
Solidarity.

Standing on the picket line.
With an oil drum burning cold.
The union caved in today .
We are proud to stand together, 
friends neighbours and family 
Standing shoulder to shoulder, 
Our heads held high, our yet hearts hang low, 
Shoulder to shoulder we all stand together
As we all go back down the mining hole.

©2012 sarah patel