Alex Sturbaum 2024
The Edwardsville, IL Amazon warehouse collapsed December 2021.
Alex Sturbaum: https://countercurrentmusic.bandcamp.com/track/six-workers
They were stuck inside a warehouse on a cold midwinter’s eve
There were twister warnings screaming but they weren’t allowed to leave
The bosses had their quotas set by Bezos from on high
And bosses never give a damn if workers live or die
There were husbands, wives, and children waiting out the storm at home
But the workers couldn’t call them ’cause the bosses took their phones
So it wasn’t ’til the morning that the dreadful news come down
A storm rose in its fury and it tore the warehouse down
Chorus:
Six workers dead in Illinois and it just goes to show
The boss will either kill you fast or he will kill you slow
So join the union while you can before the chance is gone
If we don’t stand together then they’ll crush us one by one
Word came to Jeff soon after but he didn’t say a word
He was busy playing spaceman, didn’t want to be disturbed
His company was quicker and they said they’d think and pray
They gave the town a mill and hoped that it would go away
It took Jeff about five minutes time to get that million back
And other warehouse workers now are taking up the slack
So Amazon is doing fine, it seems they always will
It doesn’t seem to matter just how many folks they kill
You can sit and wait forever for the bosses to decide
That your life is worth more to them than the precious bottom line
You can hope that voting does the trick, hell it may yet somehow
But Congress’ wheels grind slowly and we need a change right now
Well the bosses they will threaten and they’ll bluster and they’ll lie
They’ll tell you how much worse it is for folks who organize
But we could get our dignity and freedom if we dare
And they wouldn’t try and bust the unions if they weren’t scaredÂ