oh i would never walk across a picket line nsolidarity forever don't mean just sometimes nso long live the union! ncross my heart and hope to die nif I should ever walk across a picket line nnwell my mother never told me what was right or what was wrong nshe never taught me to play guitar never taught me to write songs nbut one thing that she taught me i'll remember for all time nand that's that you should never walk across a picket line nnshe took me to a factory where the workers were on strike nthe company had called in scabs to break the union's might nmy mum went to the front and addressed those greedy swine nsayin' “i dare any of you men to walk across this picket line!” nnwell one of them came forward and he had something to say: n“no woman will stand between me and one day's pay! ni don't care 'bout the others i am taking what is mine” nand with that he tried to walk across our picket line nnmom called him a dirty scab, gave him two pieces of her mind nshe picked up and she threw every rock that she could find nand when he called the cops on her she kicked his behind nsayin' “that's what you get when you walk across a union's picket line!” nnwell to this day i can remember what my momma used to say: n“we're fighting for a better world, not just for better pay nand if we stick together then we'll win this fight in time nso long as we don't walk across each other's picket lines”