Come all you friends and workers
A tale I'll tell to you
Of how we built our union
You call the NMU
We fought the goons and gun thugs
Around the ocean shores
I guess I got my head caved in (head caved in)
A dozen times or more
[Chorus 1: All]
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
[Verse 2: Ken Casey, All]
You had a fony set up
You called the SIU
We had a ratty ship and a crummy bunk
With roaches in our stew
We fought against the weather
And the stooges too (and the stooges too)
To win a clеan bunk and mess hall
For newly-comes likе you
[Chorus 2: All]
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
[Spoken Bridge]
For me to try to change this whole big mess around by myself
I wouldn't last longer than a snowball in hell
But there's a hundred thousand of me now
And we fought like hell to get here
So you fight like hell to keep what we shed blood to earn
[Verse 3: Ken Casey, All]
For eight hours a day and overtime pay (and overtime pay)
We battled it out with you big shot men
We've seen times that looked pretty dark
Until we brought the union in (until we brought the union in)
[Chorus 3: All]
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies
Bound to lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
All you fonies bound to lose, lose, lose
All you fonies, you're bound to lose, lose, lose