Five hundred men sacked for refusingnTo ever cross a picket linenThe voices down the ages warningnNever cross a picket linenYou must never cross a picket linennTwo years gone by but still they nevernEver cross a picket linenWith their wives and children they stand togethernNever cross a picket linenYou must never cross a picket linennLook away, look awaynLook away out west to San FrancisconLook away, look awaynLook away down south to Sydney HarbournWhere the dockers have organisednThe world's longest picket linennTechnically this is an illegal strikenNever cross a picket linenBut technically workers have no rightsnNever cross a picket linenYou must never cross a picket linennOh, I want to live in a Brand New BritainnNever cross a picket linenWhere workers rights are enshrined and writtennNever cross a picket linenYou must never cross a picket linennLook away, look awaynLook away out west to San DiegonLook away, look awaynLook away out east to far OsakanWhere the dockers have organisednThe world's longest picket linennThe Tories are gone but there's no improvementnNever cross a picket linenNow where is the might of the Labour movementnNever cross a picket linenYou must never cross a picket linennLook away, look awaynLook away down south to Auckland CitynLook away, look awaynLook away out west to old VancouvernWhere the dockers have organisednThe world's longest picket linennWhere the dockers have realisednYou must never cross a picket line