Which Side Are You On (Cover) by Seth Staton Watkins

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Which Side Are You On (Cover) by Seth Staton Watkins
Its back! Apologies for the brief hiccup. "Which Side Are You On?" is a song written in 1931 by activist Florence Reece, who was the wife of Sam Reece, a union organizer for the United Mine Workers in Harlan County, Kentucky. In light of recent events, for this cover I have changed the lyrics from Harlan County to LA County and the reference to J.H. Blair to "a scab for the boss, beware" (I did revise that from "a thug for Robert Iger" because finally I didn't like the forced rhyme, artistically), in solidarity with the writers and actors currently on strike. There have already been some prominent scabs on major platforms like TikTok making the reference throughout the song very relevant. Crossing the picket lines for a paycheck is unacceptable. It is akin to agreeing to dive underwater with an oxygen tank to sabotage a boat full of people on the verge of sinking who are attempting to take refuge on Bob Igers yacht just a few meters away. And then while they sink and drown, you may live a bit longer, but that oxygen (i.e. payout) won't last forever, and he isn't letting you on board either despite your betrayal. In the end we all drown unless we work together to demand what is rightfully ours.
Lyrics:
Come, all you good workers
Good news to you I'll tell
Of how the good old union
Has come in here to dwell
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
My daddy was a miner
And I'm a miner's son
And I'll stick with the union
Until the battle's won
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
They say in LA County
There are no neutrals there
You'll either be a union man
Or a scab for the boss, beware
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Oh, workers can you stand it?
Oh, tell me how you can
Will you be a lousy scab
Or will you be a man?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Don't scab for the bosses
Don't listen to their lies
Poor folks ain't got a chance
Unless they organize
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?

Пікірлер: 81

@xxautumnchillsxx 11 ай бұрын

My father was an union man. He worked for the auto industry, they striked in the 90s. We marched the picket lines for our rights. We won. Stand strong strikers, we stand with you!!

@videosofaretiree5888 5 ай бұрын

Love from me to the people who stand against Genocide ,Zionism, Apartheid and Fascism !!

@endoftherope Ай бұрын

Yep you won now those jobs are over seas now good job

@netwitchtatjana4661 Жыл бұрын

One of my favourite union songs and still up to date. Thanks a lot, Seth. In "The Scab", Jack London famously wrote that "After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles. When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out..."

@sethstatonwatkins Жыл бұрын

Powerful

@NoverMaC 11 ай бұрын

@@JustinThorLPs scab

@alpacaofthemountain8760 9 ай бұрын

How does the corpo’s boot taste

@videosofaretiree5888 5 ай бұрын

Love from me to the people who stand against Genocide ,Zionism, Apartheid and Fascism !!

@hellhoundactual8201 Жыл бұрын

Boss: You're fired Unionizing Passchendaele, Bellau Wood etc vets from WWI priming a grenade in the 1930s: Hey Shitass, Catch.

@Techno_Idioto Ай бұрын

Stacks of cash and gold bars won't do fuckin' jack shit against 105mm and pissed off workers!

@laterreurrouge1917 11 ай бұрын

The workers have nothing to lose but their chains - they have a world to win. WORKERS OF THE WORLD: UNITE ! ✊🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

@isaiahbasaldua924 Жыл бұрын

there's power in union solidarity forever

@persianprince6213 Жыл бұрын

You never fail to present the most amazing songs to us, Seth! A timeless and beautifuly sung rendition! Thank you ❤ 🙌

@FaziahAddala-jl1ff 5 ай бұрын

BEAUTIFUL SONG❤ BEAUTIFUL VOICE❤ THANK YOU SO MUCH SETH❤ SOLIDARITY❤❤❤❤❤

@Dudelolwat Жыл бұрын

Beautiful and timely! Florence Reece would be proud.

@commandergree113 Жыл бұрын

Glad that we have this banger back. And I love the beach ground image. ✊

@bellerain381 Жыл бұрын

Jaw. Drop! You have such an amazing voice and the emotion shows! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@videosofaretiree5888 5 ай бұрын

Love from me to the people who stand against Genocide ,Zionism, Apartheid and Fascism !!

@magdalen5108 3 ай бұрын

❤❤❤🏥🇵🇸✊🏽✊🏼✊🏿💔❤️‍🩹

@runiccurse990 Жыл бұрын

Amazing, as always!

@kristentejera7160 11 ай бұрын

This is really so well done! Thank you for sharing!

@Rrss369 Жыл бұрын

Solidarity! Great job as always!

@maxfieldstanton4541 Жыл бұрын

UNION STRONG! you should do Hold the Line.

@persianprince6213 Жыл бұрын

In the spirit of the peoples power, would you consider takeing on "El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido", The peope united will never be defeated! ✊️⚖️

@emrecanarduc4378 10 ай бұрын

Wow this sound way better than classic one . Nice vocals sire 😊

@KleineFischPrinzessin400 Жыл бұрын

Powerful

@Mikesman1000 11 ай бұрын

Hello to you workers, wherever you are! 🫡

@Spiral.Dynamics 10 ай бұрын

Beautiful 🌹

@simplechristian2438 11 ай бұрын

Can you do 'the banks of the roses' your voice would suit it Keep up the good work 👍

@icook1723 Жыл бұрын

Writers and actors on strike. And unless things change, UPS joins in august.

@alpacaofthemountain8760 9 ай бұрын

Great work!

@GoddessOfWhatnot 6 ай бұрын

If you take requests, I think a Seth Staton Watkins version of “There is Power in a Union” (Billy Bragg) would be amazing 🥹

@highwaymanlee4467 7 ай бұрын

As someone from Harlan KY im not sure about the changes but it was beautifully done

@sethstatonwatkins 7 ай бұрын

If you stand with a coal miner, you should stand with a writer. One is not more worthy than the other. Does the miner not benefit from the advocacy of the writer, and vice versa? Solidarity is solidarity. Forever.

@MarshalMarrs Жыл бұрын

#SOLIDARITYNOWANDFOREVER

@Just_Asukaa Жыл бұрын

Hi Seth, can you a make a cover about the Irish Ballade “Michael Collins“?

@persianprince6213 Жыл бұрын

that would be lit

@peternormand4094 Жыл бұрын

You should do Fire and Flame by The Longest Johns!!!!

@hellhoundactual8201 11 ай бұрын

As a Native Haligonian, This comment brings me great warmth to my Heart.

@morgoththedark1 Жыл бұрын

Happy to have it back!

@MrZemme 11 ай бұрын

Beautiful song. Beautiful cover. Definitely for the bosses, though, more often than not.

@cationforge144 Жыл бұрын

Yay, it's back!

@seekingabsolution1907 Жыл бұрын

Have you considered Billy Brags There is Power In a Union.

@snippychicken2220 Жыл бұрын

I was wondering when you would put the video back up

@alexthompson3287 11 ай бұрын

Day one of asking for Drunken sailor

@thecbh4685 11 ай бұрын

Hey could do a cover of a long way to tipperary I love the music

@james_baker Жыл бұрын

You've done a good thing here

@erikasan3299 Жыл бұрын

Nice beard seth!

@aysebaykotan3882 Ай бұрын

Unity ❤️✌️🍉

@mkvenner2 11 ай бұрын

Solidarity Forever

@lukecoffey1461 11 ай бұрын

I’d love to see a cover of siúil a rúin

@persianprince6213 11 ай бұрын

Fr fr ❤

@AxlLeigh 7 ай бұрын

SOLIDARITY WITH THE UAW!!!

@JBurdoo Жыл бұрын

You should do Solidarity Forever and Billy Bragg's Internationale.

@icook1723 Жыл бұрын

He has done solidarity

@AidanLovesMinecraft 9 ай бұрын

My personal opinion. The original internationale ( English 1935 ) would be better

@gmofkings 11 ай бұрын

me and mine are all pro union to keep the work up

@stormlord1177 11 ай бұрын

Could you do "a snipers promise"

@alexthompson3287 11 ай бұрын

Day Three of asking for Drunken sailor

@jakedilbeck7107 10 ай бұрын

Song hasn't been this relevant since the day it was written

@user-zb2zp4zu9s 10 ай бұрын

Мы проиграли битву, а не войну!

@TheBigBadBeowulf 10 ай бұрын

My Great pawpaw from Scotland proved Union. Pawpaw was union. I'm Union now. There's a lot I dislike about the Union. ngl. But a Union is better than nothing

@joshvercekaites1804 7 ай бұрын

The unions won this time

@colt.4556 11 ай бұрын

It's been a while since I've wanted to listen to Pete on my way to work. I enjoy a good cover song, but I'm not enjoying work right now. I've never been pro or anti union but I'm 30 now and tired of getting fucked over by some corporate pimp.

@jasoncox5263 11 ай бұрын

For decades everyone in Hollywood got rich and looked down on us humble folk who work normal jobs, now their industry is facing the same sort of mechanization that they mocked others for resisting. Every member of the Screen Writer's Guild could get on a ship bound for Mars tomorrow and I would never notice it in my life. AI is going to replace all of them in ten years regardless of how this strike shakes out. That goes double for the members of the Screen Actor's Guild. #learntocode

@sethstatonwatkins 11 ай бұрын

Can you name some of these individuals (working class actors and writers) who mocked other working class individuals? And the thing about AI is that it cannot be trained on AI material. It triggers a simplification loop, or reduction, such that all creative diversity disappears in the outcome. So human writers will always be needed to train new models at the very least. But all workers deserve to have their livelihoods protected, no matter what industry. In-fighting among the working class will only serve the interests of the executives. Also, the desired outcome of the strike is to ban the use of AI to replace working members without at least compensation for their likeness so your premise that the outcome is erroneous is not correct.

@user-yy4yu1ox4z 7 ай бұрын

@@sethstatonwatkinsbien dicho, estoy ansioso por organizarme

@brt1strrbb110 3 ай бұрын

Comparing l.a, I assume references the writers, to coal miners is insanely insulting. Lousy work and entitlement with great pay vs “we are dieing at least pay us so our families can hit and we will literally fight with our bare hands on this hill.”

@isaiahbasaldua924 Жыл бұрын

only the union can save our class from the bosses unjust hand. Now is the time to fight for a worker's and farmers party. So we can have a voice in politics. We can strike but the real power is building a vanguard party leading to a revolutionary society where capitalism is dead and gone

@jameswilson6758 11 ай бұрын

A great performance, even if I don't stand with the unions at all. Which is not to say I stand with the studios either. Way things have been going in Hollywood, to borrow paraphrased verbiage from The Little Platoon in one of his various appearances on Critical Drinker's Open Bar, I'm perfectly happy to sit back and watch both sides lose.