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Yes PLEASE Cannot wait for that! This one was so very worth the wait, my favorite song on the album, truly done justice Thank you all of you who made this possible! And now, im just curious, but how many commissions were a part of this community project?
As a guy who has spent a Lifetime doing the backbreaking labors no one else wanted to do. For LONG Days and HARD working conditions. I am so MOVED by this project I can't help but shed a few tears. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! And for all my Brothers and Sisters Still out there pushing HARD. And for all the brethren I have lost to time and conditions....THANK YOU!! You ARE appreciated!!
You are the faceless and the nameless, but you are the ones who make the wold turn. Thank you for everything you have done. Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.
I love that there's a few shots of teachers and restaurant staff and retail workers. Modern labor isn't just the factoryman anymore and we all deserve a better world.
As someone who has worked as a waiter a few times, I can say its one hell of a physically demanding job. It wouldn't be if certain retarded "etiquette" rules wouldn't exist regarding how to hold full tablets and what footwear to wear. Because screw holding fully loaded tablets with only my left hand with my elbow at a right angle. If I was doing that stuff full time, I'd have a bizeps to rival a bodybuilder... but maybe I had a shitty employer.
I know I'm not going to do anything important but I might say this because I have a full life ahead of me and I Want to accomplish world peace or live when war was just a argument
This is a great point and I'm glad you brought it up. Labor is all who work for their pay, and ultimately make money for the owner class who do no work. We are all workers and we are all on the same side.
@@daynamorris2399 same for my mom. I truly cannot understand how she did it for 40 or so years without quitting. But good on her, and your mom too. It is an important and thankless job.
I'm not crying, you're crying! My family has sailors, soldiers, miners, factory workers, gardeners, trade workers, teachers, and more. Often working multiple jobs at once to pay the bills. My grandfather worked the mines for years and we recently discovered he was claustrophobic... Working class pride for life, thank you for such a beautiful video x
I find that anger occurs when a boundary has been crossed. I can think of no clearer boundary being crossed than taking from the wages of the worker. No such thing as "record profits" without wage theft.
As a blue collar worker, I love this song. It has such deep pride. It says, “you may not know what we do for you, but we know what we do for you.” There are few things with more pride deserved than an honest days work.
There is that pride, but I feel the song is more about the underappreciation many workers get for what they do. A job wouldn't exist if there was no need for it, yet we're constantly told to "get a better job" if you want to get anywhere in life... yet we all know who loses their shit when they can't go into a shop because it has no workers left. Thanks for all the hard work and abuse you face at the hands of customers, here's enough for a loaf of bread and nothing more.
But the question is, do you know what the people who risk their financial futures, to make the companies you work for, do? You get safety, we get success, maybe.
@an_f-14_tomcat studies show that diagnostic algorithms are more accurate than doctors. I know doctors who use WebMD, people use doctors because they want "bedside manner" meanwhile medical malpractice and infections are a leading cause of death in the US.
The lyrics are important, no doubt. There is a certain resolute tone to the melody. It’s not defeated, or full of self pity. It’s a fight song. It’s an anthem. It’s as timeless as the struggle itself. Remember this feeling, as you listen to it. I believe you are feeling the souls of our brothers and sisters who built this world we live in. Know your worth!! You are a human being, god damn it! Don’t ever forget that.
Good fortune to you and your efforts. Even mature unions with stable contracts with decades of established arbitrations and labor rulings to reference struggle. However, organizing from the ground up and getting a contract is a special struggle, and getting that done is an amazing task. Keep fighting.
I hope your union is crushed. Worker performance is terrible across all industries and services. They don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to collective bargaining. And with all the illegal immigration flowing into the West, they can easily be replaced.
That's my shot of Thornrose Graveyard at 0:20--how thrilling to see the dear old place in this! I decided to send that in because when I walk there, it makes me think of the many generations of hard-working little folks who've gone before, and laid the way for me, unremembered. This whole thing is just too lovely. Thank you, Johns, from all us workers. Here's a health to this whole company, and let's up and take another, even when it's hard! God bless us all, and here's a to a better year in 2023.
Between the announcement of this and the final release, I've actually become involved in protest and direct action for this cause. Couldn't be happier with how you've presented this. Hopefully the movement for change continues silently gathering momentum at the rate that it is and people learn more of just how precedented this is in our history. Solidarity from an old mill town of Lancashire.
Direct action is the only way that there will ever be change on a systemic level. What rights we do enjoy were not granted to us from the benevolence of the powerful, they were earned through the determination and blood of those who fought for them. And now, as they continue to be chipped away at, it's up to us to keep those rights and fight for more. Solidarity from Orlando, Florida!
Thanks to all the hard workers out there! I know you feel used and abused. You are much appreciated and I hope somehow this helps move things in a better direction.
To be honest, if you feel used and abused, please quit and do something you love or at least work in an environment you love. We need the world as happy and healthy as possible.
@@PrideTheTiefling Everyone can quit a normal job. Though there are still some countries where there are really cruel laws and/or authorities where there are really bad consequences (like where you have to serve in armies by law, or the Chinese "reeducation" camps for ethnic Uyghurs, for example). Either way, I support you in finding a way to do what you love in an environment you love, so that the world is happier and healthier.
@@thewiseturtle no, not everyone. Please educate yourself more before spreading misinformation like this. Not everyone has the same opportunities as you do
As an 'elderly' lady, cook on many a freighter and an active member of 'The Seamans Union' in Denmark for years, I applaud you boys. This puts me in tears of gratitude and renews the almost faded courage in my heart to know that the young ones are picking up the torch. Hold it high make it burn with your passion for those who hold up our world, with their sweat and blood, tears and pain, frowned upon and ignored because we are only manual labor. The chorus has me sobbing. Thank you. ❤❤
Glad I wore my high-vis shirt, makes me easy to find. Also great to see so many other high-vis shirts in the crowd! I work a desk job now, but I hope I never forget the lessons I learned from working with my hands in the sun, the rain, and whatever else Nature graced me with. Hard hats off to the workers!
This song means more to me every time I buy groceries. Every time I watch a paycheck disappear the same day it's deposited. Every time I worry about my job security. Every time I yearn to own a small homestead on land surrounded by a community that provides most necessities for itself.
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This song helped radicalize so many people, and rightfully so. It speaks a deep truth that the powerful from local warlords to slavers to presidents to CEOs are terrified of workers understanding. That WE are the ones who do all the work and COULD hold all the power if we worked together.
"You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us 100 to 1, and if they ever figure that out; there goes our way of life! It's not about food, it's about keeping those ants in line." From Hopper's speech in the Pixar-movie A Bug's Life. Stay strong, band together, keep the unions together. Speak up and work as a unit. They need us, a lot more than we need them.
LYRICS: O' Come all of you workers Who toil night and day By hand and by brain To earn your pay Who for centuries long past For no more than your bread Have bled for your countries And counted your dead We're the first ones to starve The first ones to die The first ones in line For that pie-in-the-sky And always the last When the cream is shared out For the worker is working When the fat cat's about In the factories and mills, In the shipyards and mines We've often been told To keep up with the times For our skills are not needed, They've streamlined the job And with sliderule and stopwatch Our pride they have robbed We're the first ones to starve The first ones to die The first ones in line For that pie-in-the-sky And always the last When the cream is shared out For the worker is working When the fat cat's about But when the sky darkens And the prospect is war Who's given a gun And then pushed to the fore And expected to die For the land of our birth Though we've never owned One lousy handful of earth We're the first ones to starve The first ones to die The first ones in line For that pie-in-the-sky And always the last When the cream is shared out For the worker is working When the fat cat's about And all of these things The worker has done From tilling the fields To carrying the gun We've been yoked to the plough Since time first began And always expected To carry the can We're the first ones to starve The first ones to die The first ones in line For that pie-in-the-sky And always the last When the cream is shared out For the worker is working When the fat cat's about We're the first ones to starve The first ones to die The first ones in line For that pie-in-the-sky And always the last When the cream is shared out For the worker is working When the fat cat's about
@@Northstar-Mediano, no. We don't need communism, we need more OSHA visits. And maybe a take back when workers were respected both by other workers, managers and the youth. Back when a ceartin anoying, agonising, loud, disrespectful and cringe group of people whose group name starts with a k didn't exist.
Welp, wasn't expecting this to make me cry, but here we are. Cheers to Robbie and the boys, everyone who contributed, and all the workers of the world ✊
@@eliquate this happened to come on my feed after a REALLY stressful day at work and it took everything I had to not burst into tears on the bus home. You're not alone!
Happy to be a part of this community and this project. All the extra clips of everyone working really made this one feel special. Thank you for bringing us all together for another project, and thank you to all the workers out there
@@jaidencracknell2326 Yes comrade, if us weirdos must stick together, and every worker is told they are weirdo under capitalism, then we must inherently all be united against the bourgeoisie. *The Belosgeosisie.*
Come all ye brothers arisen by the solidaritous tunes that avail our ears! Come and sing this song with us all as loud as you can! Fantastic work lads, and fantastic work to everyone who took part!
As one of the singers, I am sooooo looking forward to this! After almost 2 years of off and on searching, I still have yet to find myself in the Wellerman, but hopefully I will have better luck this time! But no matter what, I'm proud to have been a part of this!
Same here. Tried to find myself in the wellerman but way too many awesome singers. I'm curious to see how many singers this time around. This time I wore a top hat to help me stand out lol
@@Musicnotes399 about a year after the release I found a great way. There's an extension "Screenshot RUclips", which allows to to take a screenshot from the video at its resolution (4k on the Wellerman). You go to the very end, where can you see all the people, take a screenshot at 4k and pop it into some photo editing software (GIMP or PhotoShop or anything like that) and then you can easily go through every little window after zooming in.
I Don’t think you understand how much this touches the 9-5 worker like Johnny cash said the saddest blues are a workin man blues and there are only a few songs that capsulate that and this is one
This is beautiful. Such a wonderful song of solidarity sang by such a diverse and wide array of people. Something about it truly speaks to my heart and brings tears to my eyes. I wanted to participate in this project too, but felt discouraged because of my struggles with being really self-conscious and hating how I look, but seeing how beautiful and brave this turned out, I wish I had the courage to send that file.
Hey, there’s always the next one. I hope you’re able to get to that point. (I mean that sincerely because I also know the struggle of being self-conscious of how I look these days.)
I was only just dipping my newbie toes in the sea of Johns when this project was beginning, so I’m very much looking forward to watching, and seeing the reactions of those who participated.
Working in retail during the entirety of the pandemic while trying to get by and supporting my family, I salute everyone who put their lives at risk and put up with the BS we still deal with on a daily basis. Longest Johns and community, thank you for doing this! I love this so much and I'm gonna show it to everyone who work so many hours to make ends meet shows that we care!
I'm currently facing the possibility of being fired for reporting a manager's inappropriate behaviour, 7 years I've dedicated to looking after vulnerable people, and I'm being punished for caring. I have been labelled as a dangerous individual, and have to put up with the humiliation of not being able to enter my workplace without an escort, i have done nothing but to calmly speak out against injustice. My coworkers ask me what happened and when i'll be back, i'm not allowed to speak with them. The shifts i am not allowed to work result in me eating one meal a day, i'm not allowed to seek any other employment while this "investigation" continues onto it's third week This song is carrying me through, thank you for the motivation, up the workers
2:29 I noticed a fellow Gmod trainbuilder in the bottom left here. Been a part of that community since I was young, it's incredible how it's lasted so long and managed to wind up here. I do wish the workers of the world for a happier future, but I'm more than happy to spot my little niche community after all these years.
Thank you. My family is blue collared workers in the US, with prior generations in the coal mines. Blue collars are especially the first to be forgotten, making it difficult to seek even needed treatment. Modern technology and regulations put so many miners out of jobs, which paid to feed families.
I love this song so much and it is really special that you all made this project. I am fairly well off having a "cushy office job" but I have worked terrible jobs before from detasseling corn to fast food, to retail. We all have to stick together and stand by eachother because at the end of the day we are all workers. I will always have more in common with the factory workers or fast food cashiers than I will ever have with the fat cats who are crushing us all. We all deserve dignity, safety, and the ability to provides for not only our needs but a reasonable amount of our wants with the labor we perform. A living wage if you will.
Right. Cushy or not, you're still selling your time when the leisure class don't have to. Don't let them divide us. All who must work are working class. That line is only ever blurred when you're an employer, investor or landlord - it doesn't matter whether you're a delivery driver or software engineer.
@@ccaagg ab-so-lu-tely. The imaginary distinction between 'low-end' and 'cushy' work serves only to divide workers and set them against one another, when it's solidarity across the different professions that will allow the labouring class to band together against exploitation.
Plus an office job is still exposing u to harm and often is also undervalued. My office technician job has me maxed out at 22.70 and hr. In Southern California. It’s not enough
@@CAFEkatArt And by the nature of what people do in office jobs, you're also usually far more alienated from the product of your labour than someone in, say, manufacturing.
Listening to this on my way home from work at 10 in the morning after spending the night loading up mail trucks with boxes, barely getting paid enough to get by. And this is a damn good song but it almost had me in tears. Going to be learning all the words to this one! 😄✊
I worked all through Covid, being told but that I'm essential and a hero, while being threatened with death by death from people being fired up by cable news. We couldn't demand people wear masks, since the local and county police refused to enforce it. But I was essential. I was a hero. They thanked me for my service... For a minute. Now it's back to 'you're lucky you have a job', and 'get back to work.'. I never stopped. They're on cable news complaining about the million workers that are missing, calling them lazy. They're not lazy. They're dead. They're gone. They're not coming back.
People where I lived mostly wore masks withoiut complaining. The problem was that they would take them off to sneeze. I saw a lady sneeze on the oranges I had just put out and I gave her a death stare, though we weren't supposed to throw out anything so I had to just leave it. So disgusting. And of course, we were heroes for all of two months, by which point our $2/hr bonus was retracted and we went right back to minimum wage, just in time for the positive PR from the wage bump to wear off.
I started out trying to find myself in the video and ended up just looking at the wonderful variety and diversity of people in it. And to anyone hesistating to join in a community project like this: Just do it. There are enough people who are enough in tune that you don't need to worry about your singing. And if you're consious about how you look, either be creative with filming/editing or take this as an opportunity to challenge yourself. Personally I loved seeing everyone in this video, no matter how they looked, and this does not seem like the kind of community that would criticise anyone based on that.
I cried my way through the chorus each time. Retired from the rat race last summer, a body sore, mind numbed and sleep deprived journey from simple laborer up to the front of a classroom in our public school system. I respect all of you who labor in the shadow of the fat cats, whatever you do to keep afloat in this world.👊
This song makes me cry. I'm in a wheelchair now because my body gave out after years of hard labor. And, that's all I have to show for all my work and loyalty to a company.
I first heard the Dropkick Murphys version on Blackout back in 2004. I was just a young kid and liked the tune but didn't really get it. Damn near 20 years on and over 12 years into a career in the automotive industry, this song punches hard into me. Their version is like a front lines rallying cry, but yours is a community with arms slung over each other's shoulders to stand up and say "Enough." We need more of that in this world today.
I found myself singing this after hearing the recent news. I'm still devastated and frightened for my life in this country, but singing this gives me a sense of determination.
I'm not crying, I've got something in my eyes, your crying, this hits hard today as the UK government try to strip more union rights away and take the last rights as workers we have, the right to withdraw our labor
I'm a bit late to this but I'm moved by the song. I work an admin job in traffic management, a very thankless industry. You hear about the people on the ground out there standing in traffic risking their lives to keep the roads safe. You're all loved and appreciated, no matter what you do.
As I was watching I couldn't help the smile on my face. These faces, these are my people and my community! Thank you to everyone who participated and to The Longest and Most Awesome Johns for this project!! Shout out to all you "lowly" workers whose dedication and hard work have created a wonderfully cushy western culture that we all enjoy and almost always take for granted.
a song for the people that's what this is, a song for those that empires ride on the backs of, every drop of blood or cent made is shed by the people that they would forget, a song to be song we we take the rope that they use to lead and we string it up ready for the neck of the ones that would use the people, a song of quite everyday love from fathers ,mothers ,sisters ,brothers ,sons ,daughters a song for those that are the backs of this world a song that should be song allowed for all to hear this is one of the greatest songs i think I've heard and a song that we need now more then ever
It's beautiful too know worker's are fighting back again .I am proud to be born into this class. We hold the key to the future. Right now we are organizing again and we are calling back to the revolutionary tradition which is ours and ours alone . The working class has no fatherland and together we are seeing that truth. Revolution is on it's way and what a time to be alive too witness the beginning of the beginning of the new world too be .
We should be a united front, progressives and workers, we all have a bone to pick with capitalism and the corperations who have robbed us of compassion, love and basic human rights. We are all worth being loved, not exploited, by the society around us. Solidarity forever, for the union marches on!
I give my shoutout to my friends and family stuck working back-end jobs not because it's what they want, but because it's what they know. You're the unsung heroes given a voice here.
I think I see myself (or rather, my hat and the bit of string holding my bib n' brace together)! Watched this three times now and I keep finding new highlights - first watch I just got excited about all of us singing, and whenever the curly dog turned up, second watch I saw the other dog and got a proper look at the group in 'Victorian Orphan' style, third watch someone has a WIZARD HAT and there's a tiny child absoloutely overcome with Socialist zeal...I love these videos, there's always so much going on. I'm in awe of how you ever organise any of it.
Amen. All of us who are affected by the leader's decisions are the workers, whether in a factory, on a truck, in uniform, behind a desk, behind a counter, and so much more. Every single goods and services position out there is there for a reason and most often under-appreciated, under-valued, under-compensated and even those in the position often hold no pride in the work, just living to work. I dream and personally work toward a better society. Thank you for this.
Songs like this do two important things. It tells everyone who toils and suffers that you are not alone. And more importantly, it offers solidarity in knowing we are strong together.
This gave the best kind of goosebumps. As a disabled textile worker, thank you for such a beautiful reminder that apart we are only threads, but united we are a strong weave. 💖
As a worker who’s brothers and sisters have abandoned the union, I teared up. I wish we could get a collective again. Hopes to one day it being better.
I have a feeling this song is gonna slowly or quickly, but surely make a resurgence as more and more folks start to become more and more disassociated aware of the world
This song always makes me cry in a way other working songs don't and I just realized why. There is something so very British about the resignation it expresses. It's a worker's song, but it's not a song of rebellion and that's what is missing. Slovene working songs will express the bad conditions in the first stanzas, but they will end with a call to rebel and a desire to overcome these conditions. This songs is so symptomatic of the British resistance to protest and rebellion that has meant the people have tolerated things from their leaders that would have had every other European country on the streets years ago.
This song makes me cry because it hits too close to home. That hurts. I am also very grateful that we have such awesome people in the world. Everyone deserves a better world.
Love this song, so many workers are so under appreciated and without them the world would fall apart. Great work to everyone who feels underappreciated and go all the workers out there. Great job to all the people who took part, to the longest John's who write/sing these awesome songs. Awesome props to the editors, love how I could see everyone. Cant wait to do more
I didn't expect to find myself among all the great submissions in this, but I'm clearly visible several times (right next to Dave). That kind of made my day. :) Wonderful song, wonderful message; thank you, TLJ, for letting us all be a part of it!
@@professorgrimm4602 That's one way to look at it. The way I see it, democratic reform of capitalism is an objectively better solution than communism, because 99% of the time, communism ends up being an authoritarian hellscape
@@avionrico6941 My friend capitalism is the system of stock holders demanding more and more growth for more and more payout. They are why the workers can't dictate their schedules, their production, their pay etc. For every dollar someone earns that isn't worked for there is someone creating a dollar of earnings they will never receive. There is no reform of capitalism. Labor and Capital will always be at odds until one wipes out the other.
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Ok fellow seafarers
Part of the Union by the strawbs
Ok!
Yes PLEASE
Cannot wait for that!
This one was so very worth the wait, my favorite song on the album, truly done justice
Thank you all of you who made this possible!
And now, im just curious, but how many commissions were a part of this community project?
i love that you guys do things like this. keep it up!
As a guy who has spent a Lifetime doing the backbreaking labors no one else wanted to do. For LONG Days and HARD working conditions. I am so MOVED by this project I can't help but shed a few tears. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! And for all my Brothers and Sisters Still out there pushing HARD. And for all the brethren I have lost to time and conditions....THANK YOU!! You ARE appreciated!!
Thank you so much!!
thank you for all your hard work,you are amazing 👏
Workers united will never be defeated!
You are the faceless and the nameless, but you are the ones who make the wold turn. Thank you for everything you have done. Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.
If you don’t mind me asking, what do you do?
I love that there's a few shots of teachers and restaurant staff and retail workers. Modern labor isn't just the factoryman anymore and we all deserve a better world.
My mom teaches disabled kids for a living and the stories she has about parents could fill at least one book
As someone who has worked as a waiter a few times, I can say its one hell of a physically demanding job. It wouldn't be if certain retarded "etiquette" rules wouldn't exist regarding how to hold full tablets and what footwear to wear.
Because screw holding fully loaded tablets with only my left hand with my elbow at a right angle. If I was doing that stuff full time, I'd have a bizeps to rival a bodybuilder... but maybe I had a shitty employer.
I know I'm not going to do anything important but I might say this because I have a full life ahead of me and I Want to accomplish world peace or live when war was just a argument
This is a great point and I'm glad you brought it up. Labor is all who work for their pay, and ultimately make money for the owner class who do no work. We are all workers and we are all on the same side.
@@daynamorris2399 same for my mom. I truly cannot understand how she did it for 40 or so years without quitting. But good on her, and your mom too. It is an important and thankless job.
I'm not crying, you're crying!
My family has sailors, soldiers, miners, factory workers, gardeners, trade workers, teachers, and more. Often working multiple jobs at once to pay the bills. My grandfather worked the mines for years and we recently discovered he was claustrophobic...
Working class pride for life, thank you for such a beautiful video x
No no, we are both crying
My family were all poor farmers, builders, stonemasons and fishermen. I’m totally not crying
I wish we lived in a world where your family did their work out of pure pride and not out of necessity :(
Solidarity!
FOREVERMORE!!!!!!
For-fucking-ever!
Forever and always
✊
Forever!
People are angry. We have every right to be. This expresses that perfectly. Thank you!
Edited to add: Thank you to Abbie for all of your hard work!
I just want to have a fair shake at having a happy life and I’m so sick of not getting a scrap of the record profits.
Check out We All Lift Together from Warframe. Haven't played the game but that song hits hard.
@@mojavewastelander4035 It's brilliant! I mean, adequate. :)
@@mojavewastelander4035agreed
I find that anger occurs when a boundary has been crossed. I can think of no clearer boundary being crossed than taking from the wages of the worker. No such thing as "record profits" without wage theft.
As a blue collar worker, I love this song. It has such deep pride. It says, “you may not know what we do for you, but we know what we do for you.”
There are few things with more pride deserved than an honest days work.
I definitely feel pride. A fair bit of rage and frustration too. This song definitely drew out some tears.
Original tune is by dropkick murphys. You should totally. Heck it out
@@eggsiclefishstick5569 sorry to be that guy, but the dropkick Murphys version is a cover of the original by Dick Gaughan
There is that pride, but I feel the song is more about the underappreciation many workers get for what they do. A job wouldn't exist if there was no need for it, yet we're constantly told to "get a better job" if you want to get anywhere in life... yet we all know who loses their shit when they can't go into a shop because it has no workers left.
Thanks for all the hard work and abuse you face at the hands of customers, here's enough for a loaf of bread and nothing more.
But the question is, do you know what the people who risk their financial futures, to make the companies you work for, do? You get safety, we get success, maybe.
Thinking about the exploited nurses here in NYC striking for safer working conditions, the Johns dropped this at just the right moment!
Absolutely!
and with retirements here in france, if they was a french version i'm sure it'd take over very easily...
Nurses and doctors can be replaced by WebMD.
@@DMWayne-ke7fl If we want everyone to believe they have cancer at all times, yes.
@an_f-14_tomcat studies show that diagnostic algorithms are more accurate than doctors. I know doctors who use WebMD, people use doctors because they want "bedside manner" meanwhile medical malpractice and infections are a leading cause of death in the US.
The lyrics are important, no doubt. There is a certain resolute tone to the melody. It’s not defeated, or full of self pity. It’s a fight song. It’s an anthem. It’s as timeless as the struggle itself. Remember this feeling, as you listen to it. I believe you are feeling the souls of our brothers and sisters who built this world we live in. Know your worth!! You are a human being, god damn it! Don’t ever forget that.
We are all worth being loved, not exploited, by the society around us. Solidarity forever!
As someone who has spent the last 3years organizing union and getting a contract, this brought a tear to my eye
godspeed.
Good fortune to you and your efforts. Even mature unions with stable contracts with decades of established arbitrations and labor rulings to reference struggle. However, organizing from the ground up and getting a contract is a special struggle, and getting that done is an amazing task. Keep fighting.
From one organizer to another: thank you.
I hope your union is crushed. Worker performance is terrible across all industries and services. They don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to collective bargaining. And with all the illegal immigration flowing into the West, they can easily be replaced.
everyone remember not to give clarence eugene any of your time, he is either someone infected by the state or a troll.
They got him but he won't be the last, workers stand united!
That's my shot of Thornrose Graveyard at 0:20--how thrilling to see the dear old place in this! I decided to send that in because when I walk there, it makes me think of the many generations of hard-working little folks who've gone before, and laid the way for me, unremembered.
This whole thing is just too lovely. Thank you, Johns, from all us workers. Here's a health to this whole company, and let's up and take another, even when it's hard! God bless us all, and here's a to a better year in 2023.
I've walked there before as well. It's a place I had never expected to see here. Thank you.
Between the announcement of this and the final release, I've actually become involved in protest and direct action for this cause. Couldn't be happier with how you've presented this. Hopefully the movement for change continues silently gathering momentum at the rate that it is and people learn more of just how precedented this is in our history. Solidarity from an old mill town of Lancashire.
Why silently though? :)
Solidarity from Athens, Greece!
Direct action is the only way that there will ever be change on a systemic level. What rights we do enjoy were not granted to us from the benevolence of the powerful, they were earned through the determination and blood of those who fought for them. And now, as they continue to be chipped away at, it's up to us to keep those rights and fight for more.
Solidarity from Orlando, Florida!
SOLIDARITY!!
Solidarity from a different mill town in Yorkshire :)
Solidarity from an old mill town on the sleepy Olympic peninsula USA.
Thanks to all the hard workers out there! I know you feel used and abused. You are much appreciated and I hope somehow this helps move things in a better direction.
Absolutely!!
To be honest, if you feel used and abused, please quit and do something you love or at least work in an environment you love. We need the world as happy and healthy as possible.
@@thewiseturtle not everyone can just quit. Life doesn't work like that
@@PrideTheTiefling Everyone can quit a normal job. Though there are still some countries where there are really cruel laws and/or authorities where there are really bad consequences (like where you have to serve in armies by law, or the Chinese "reeducation" camps for ethnic Uyghurs, for example). Either way, I support you in finding a way to do what you love in an environment you love, so that the world is happier and healthier.
@@thewiseturtle no, not everyone. Please educate yourself more before spreading misinformation like this. Not everyone has the same opportunities as you do
As an 'elderly' lady, cook on many a freighter and an active member of 'The Seamans Union' in Denmark for years, I applaud you boys.
This puts me in tears of gratitude and renews the almost faded courage in my heart to know that the young ones are picking up the torch.
Hold it high make it burn with your passion for those who hold up our world, with their sweat and blood, tears and pain, frowned upon and ignored because we are only manual labor.
The chorus has me sobbing. Thank you. ❤❤
Thank you.
Glad I wore my high-vis shirt, makes me easy to find. Also great to see so many other high-vis shirts in the crowd!
I work a desk job now, but I hope I never forget the lessons I learned from working with my hands in the sun, the rain, and whatever else Nature graced me with. Hard hats off to the workers!
Many thanks for taking part!!
By hand and by BRAIN. Still in it, mate.
hey, keep that hard hat on!
@@chadfalkin6850 Sorry, boss. Headband gets sweaty, boss.
Thank you all ye workers.
The lady signing was so cool
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This song means more to me every time I buy groceries.
Every time I watch a paycheck disappear the same day it's deposited.
Every time I worry about my job security.
Every time I yearn to own a small homestead on land surrounded by a community that provides most necessities for itself.
For those who don't know, when the video is paused you can move it frame by frame with "," (Comma) for the previous frame, and "." (Period) for the next frame.
"J" will jump backward 10 seconds, "K" will Pause/Play (so will the Space Bar), and "L" will jump forward 10 seconds. "🡰" (Left Arrow) will jump backward 5 seconds, and "🡲" (Right Arrow) will jump forward 5 seconds.
Good luck in your searches!
(You can find other keyboard shortcuts by holding "Shift" plus "?".)
Thanks for these tips!
Note: this only works on computers
For those still looking for themselves: The mosaic appears to be constant. Go to the very end and look there. Once you find yourself there, look at the surrounding pictures. This will make searching a lot easier.
@@matejlieskovsky9625 Although, the final picture doesn't appear to fit the whole mosaic, so if you can't find yourself there, keep looking through the rest of the video.
Another tip, if you hit the F key, you will jump into and out of full screen, and hitting the numbers above the keyboard will take you to certain spots of the video.
Example, hitting 2 takes you 20% of the way through the video, hitting 8 will take you 80% of the way through, and hitting 0 will restart it.
It was pure truth when Pickford wrote it over 300 years ago and still is today. We must do better. Thank you for doing this
300 years ago? He’s still alive today!
This song helped radicalize so many people, and rightfully so.
It speaks a deep truth that the powerful from local warlords to slavers to presidents to CEOs are terrified of workers understanding.
That WE are the ones who do all the work and COULD hold all the power if we worked together.
This is a hymn.
The Workers Hymn.
You have created a masterpiece, and we need to acknowledge the unity that this song represents.
"You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us 100 to 1, and if they ever figure that out; there goes our way of life! It's not about food, it's about keeping those ants in line." From Hopper's speech in the Pixar-movie A Bug's Life.
Stay strong, band together, keep the unions together. Speak up and work as a unit. They need us, a lot more than we need them.
LYRICS:
O' Come all of you workers
Who toil night and day
By hand and by brain
To earn your pay
Who for centuries long past
For no more than your bread
Have bled for your countries
And counted your dead
We're the first ones to starve
The first ones to die
The first ones in line
For that pie-in-the-sky
And always the last
When the cream is shared out
For the worker is working
When the fat cat's about
In the factories and mills,
In the shipyards and mines
We've often been told
To keep up with the times
For our skills are not needed,
They've streamlined the job
And with sliderule and stopwatch
Our pride they have robbed
We're the first ones to starve
The first ones to die
The first ones in line
For that pie-in-the-sky
And always the last
When the cream is shared out
For the worker is working
When the fat cat's about
But when the sky darkens
And the prospect is war
Who's given a gun
And then pushed to the fore
And expected to die
For the land of our birth
Though we've never owned
One lousy handful of earth
We're the first ones to starve
The first ones to die
The first ones in line
For that pie-in-the-sky
And always the last
When the cream is shared out
For the worker is working
When the fat cat's about
And all of these things
The worker has done
From tilling the fields
To carrying the gun
We've been yoked to the plough
Since time first began
And always expected
To carry the can
We're the first ones to starve
The first ones to die
The first ones in line
For that pie-in-the-sky
And always the last
When the cream is shared out
For the worker is working
When the fat cat's about
We're the first ones to starve
The first ones to die
The first ones in line
For that pie-in-the-sky
And always the last
When the cream is shared out
For the worker is working
When the fat cat's about
Legend!
I was just about to ask for the lyrics thabk you kind sir for posting them
Thank's to you ^^
The song of the next revolution.
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The song of the ONLY Revolution. Through out history, this is what everyone of them has boiled down to.
@@thelongestjohnslisten to the Internationale the version by the Wales guy is best
@@Northstar-Mediano, no. We don't need communism, we need more OSHA visits. And maybe a take back when workers were respected both by other workers, managers and the youth. Back when a ceartin anoying, agonising, loud, disrespectful and cringe group of people whose group name starts with a k didn't exist.
Welp, wasn't expecting this to make me cry, but here we are. Cheers to Robbie and the boys, everyone who contributed, and all the workers of the world ✊
It’s nice to hear I’m not the only one who gets SUPER emotional by this. 🤝✊
@@eliquate this happened to come on my feed after a REALLY stressful day at work and it took everything I had to not burst into tears on the bus home. You're not alone!
Workers of the world unite !!!
We are the ones who created the world and we will end itt
Happy to be a part of this community and this project. All the extra clips of everyone working really made this one feel special. Thank you for bringing us all together for another project, and thank you to all the workers out there
Thank you for being here!
I'm so glad I got to see this, I can't stop crying. Thank you dearly.
For workers of the world, unite! For let their failed divisions of us fall! For let us sing unity and raise a tomorrow made for us all!
Legit this is the last place I thought a TOH fan would be in lmao
@@jaidencracknell2326 Yes comrade, if us weirdos must stick together, and every worker is told they are weirdo under capitalism, then we must inherently all be united against the bourgeoisie. *The Belosgeosisie.*
@@TOH_Fan Lol, indeed
Come all ye brothers arisen by the solidaritous tunes that avail our ears! Come and sing this song with us all as loud as you can!
Fantastic work lads, and fantastic work to everyone who took part!
If this doesn’t stir something in you, you have no soul. Solidarity forever.
If it doesn’t stir something in you, you’re just a shitty manager 😂
Only the parasites 💵 feel nothing
United we bargain, divided we beg
Solidarity Forever
I can't stop listening to this. I'm going through a terrible time at my job right now and this song lets me know I'm not alone.
As one of the singers, I am sooooo looking forward to this! After almost 2 years of off and on searching, I still have yet to find myself in the Wellerman, but hopefully I will have better luck this time! But no matter what, I'm proud to have been a part of this!
Same here. Tried to find myself in the wellerman but way too many awesome singers. I'm curious to see how many singers this time around. This time I wore a top hat to help me stand out lol
@@Musicnotes399 about a year after the release I found a great way. There's an extension "Screenshot RUclips", which allows to to take a screenshot from the video at its resolution (4k on the Wellerman). You go to the very end, where can you see all the people, take a screenshot at 4k and pop it into some photo editing software (GIMP or PhotoShop or anything like that) and then you can easily go through every little window after zooming in.
I Don’t think you understand how much this touches the 9-5 worker like Johnny cash said the saddest blues are a workin man blues and there are only a few songs that capsulate that and this is one
This is beautiful. Such a wonderful song of solidarity sang by such a diverse and wide array of people. Something about it truly speaks to my heart and brings tears to my eyes. I wanted to participate in this project too, but felt discouraged because of my struggles with being really self-conscious and hating how I look, but seeing how beautiful and brave this turned out, I wish I had the courage to send that file.
Hey, there’s always the next one. I hope you’re able to get to that point. (I mean that sincerely because I also know the struggle of being self-conscious of how I look these days.)
I was only just dipping my newbie toes in the sea of Johns when this project was beginning, so I’m very much looking forward to watching, and seeing the reactions of those who participated.
All glory to the workers of the world!
The longest Johns is like the only group I've ever seen who're so obviously pro-worker. Incredible work to all of you, incredibly well done.
This is both Adequate, and Beyond Adequate. Thank you to everyone who made it happen.
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Working in retail during the entirety of the pandemic while trying to get by and supporting my family, I salute everyone who put their lives at risk and put up with the BS we still deal with on a daily basis. Longest Johns and community, thank you for doing this! I love this so much and I'm gonna show it to everyone who work so many hours to make ends meet shows that we care!
ridiculously proud to have been part of this! it sounds absolutely incredible everyone! heres to the next one :)
Thank you so much for joining!
All Hail Luigi. He took a shot at that pie in the sky for us all.
I'm currently facing the possibility of being fired for reporting a manager's inappropriate behaviour, 7 years I've dedicated to looking after vulnerable people, and I'm being punished for caring.
I have been labelled as a dangerous individual, and have to put up with the humiliation of not being able to enter my workplace without an escort, i have done nothing but to calmly speak out against injustice.
My coworkers ask me what happened and when i'll be back, i'm not allowed to speak with them.
The shifts i am not allowed to work result in me eating one meal a day, i'm not allowed to seek any other employment while this "investigation" continues onto it's third week
This song is carrying me through, thank you for the motivation, up the workers
I hope you’re in contact with a good labor lawyer
2:29 I noticed a fellow Gmod trainbuilder in the bottom left here. Been a part of that community since I was young, it's incredible how it's lasted so long and managed to wind up here.
I do wish the workers of the world for a happier future, but I'm more than happy to spot my little niche community after all these years.
Remember, Thoughts and Deductibles.
Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains you've got the whole world to win.
Thank you. My family is blue collared workers in the US, with prior generations in the coal mines. Blue collars are especially the first to be forgotten, making it difficult to seek even needed treatment.
Modern technology and regulations put so many miners out of jobs, which paid to feed families.
I have to give major props to the woman who cosplayed Rosie the Riveter. That's legit, love to see it.
I think it's about time we brought democracy to the workplace.
I love this song so much and it is really special that you all made this project. I am fairly well off having a "cushy office job" but I have worked terrible jobs before from detasseling corn to fast food, to retail. We all have to stick together and stand by eachother because at the end of the day we are all workers. I will always have more in common with the factory workers or fast food cashiers than I will ever have with the fat cats who are crushing us all. We all deserve dignity, safety, and the ability to provides for not only our needs but a reasonable amount of our wants with the labor we perform. A living wage if you will.
Right. Cushy or not, you're still selling your time when the leisure class don't have to. Don't let them divide us. All who must work are working class. That line is only ever blurred when you're an employer, investor or landlord - it doesn't matter whether you're a delivery driver or software engineer.
@@ccaagg Amen!
PS, landleeches (landlords) are parasites
@@ccaagg ab-so-lu-tely. The imaginary distinction between 'low-end' and 'cushy' work serves only to divide workers and set them against one another, when it's solidarity across the different professions that will allow the labouring class to band together against exploitation.
Plus an office job is still exposing u to harm and often is also undervalued. My office technician job has me maxed out at 22.70 and hr. In Southern California. It’s not enough
@@CAFEkatArt And by the nature of what people do in office jobs, you're also usually far more alienated from the product of your labour than someone in, say, manufacturing.
"Though we've never owned one lousy handful of earth" - that line always gives me chills!
Here on International Worker's Day. Workers of the world, Unite!
Listening to this on my way home from work at 10 in the morning after spending the night loading up mail trucks with boxes, barely getting paid enough to get by. And this is a damn good song but it almost had me in tears. Going to be learning all the words to this one! 😄✊
I worked all through Covid, being told but that I'm essential and a hero, while being threatened with death by death from people being fired up by cable news. We couldn't demand people wear masks, since the local and county police refused to enforce it. But I was essential. I was a hero. They thanked me for my service...
For a minute. Now it's back to 'you're lucky you have a job', and 'get back to work.'.
I never stopped.
They're on cable news complaining about the million workers that are missing, calling them lazy. They're not lazy. They're dead. They're gone. They're not coming back.
People where I lived mostly wore masks withoiut complaining. The problem was that they would take them off to sneeze. I saw a lady sneeze on the oranges I had just put out and I gave her a death stare, though we weren't supposed to throw out anything so I had to just leave it. So disgusting. And of course, we were heroes for all of two months, by which point our $2/hr bonus was retracted and we went right back to minimum wage, just in time for the positive PR from the wage bump to wear off.
OSMS from February 2020 to May 2021, making PPE and doing logistics. You did good. Thank you for being on the front line. I'm glad I helped a bit.
Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!
Mad props to the one user SIGNING the song as well as singing it. Bravo!
There's always at least two signing the lyrics, and even though I'm not deaf (I am disabled) it's seeing them that gets me choked up, each time.
I started out trying to find myself in the video and ended up just looking at the wonderful variety and diversity of people in it. And to anyone hesistating to join in a community project like this: Just do it. There are enough people who are enough in tune that you don't need to worry about your singing. And if you're consious about how you look, either be creative with filming/editing or take this as an opportunity to challenge yourself. Personally I loved seeing everyone in this video, no matter how they looked, and this does not seem like the kind of community that would criticise anyone based on that.
jeezus... For a random video to pop in my feed I didn't expect to be brought to tears. 😢
amused im hearing this version for the first time when im working 68 hours a week to cover while the owners leave for a vacation for xmas season
I cried my way through the chorus each time. Retired from the rat race last summer, a body sore, mind numbed and sleep deprived journey from simple laborer up to the front of a classroom in our public school system. I respect all of you who labor in the shadow of the fat cats, whatever you do to keep afloat in this world.👊
Brilliant song, this should be taught in schools, because this is true today as it was in the past. Thank you for your music❤❤❤❤
I dug the lady signing the lyrics! Solidarity to my fellow public sector workers fighting their corner!
This song makes me cry. I'm in a wheelchair now because my body gave out after years of hard labor. And, that's all I have to show for all my work and loyalty to a company.
I first heard the Dropkick Murphys version on Blackout back in 2004. I was just a young kid and liked the tune but didn't really get it. Damn near 20 years on and over 12 years into a career in the automotive industry, this song punches hard into me. Their version is like a front lines rallying cry, but yours is a community with arms slung over each other's shoulders to stand up and say "Enough." We need more of that in this world today.
I found myself singing this after hearing the recent news. I'm still devastated and frightened for my life in this country, but singing this gives me a sense of determination.
Peace , Soldary , Love and every Day enough to do.
Thank you all for this Great Performance
Many Greetings Frank
Thank you so much!
I'm not crying, I've got something in my eyes, your crying, this hits hard today as the UK government try to strip more union rights away and take the last rights as workers we have, the right to withdraw our labor
I'm a bit late to this but I'm moved by the song. I work an admin job in traffic management, a very thankless industry. You hear about the people on the ground out there standing in traffic risking their lives to keep the roads safe. You're all loved and appreciated, no matter what you do.
As I was watching I couldn't help the smile on my face. These faces, these are my people and my community! Thank you to everyone who participated and to The Longest and Most Awesome Johns for this project!! Shout out to all you "lowly" workers whose dedication and hard work have created a wonderfully cushy western culture that we all enjoy and almost always take for granted.
a song for the people that's what this is, a song for those that empires ride on the backs of, every drop of blood or cent made is shed by the people that they would forget, a song to be song we we take the rope that they use to lead and we string it up ready for the neck of the ones that would use the people, a song of quite everyday love from fathers ,mothers ,sisters ,brothers ,sons ,daughters a song for those that are the backs of this world a song that should be song allowed for all to hear
this is one of the greatest songs i think I've heard and a song that we need now more then ever
It's beautiful too know worker's are fighting back again .I am proud to be born into this class. We hold the key to the future. Right now we are organizing again and we are calling back to the revolutionary tradition which is ours and ours alone .
The working class has no fatherland and together we are seeing that truth.
Revolution is on it's way and what a time to be alive too witness the beginning of the beginning of the new world too be .
We should be a united front, progressives and workers, we all have a bone to pick with capitalism and the corperations who have robbed us of compassion, love and basic human rights. We are all worth being loved, not exploited, by the society around us. Solidarity forever, for the union marches on!
I love this. Solidarity with all workers around the world! ✊
I give my shoutout to my friends and family stuck working back-end jobs not because it's what they want, but because it's what they know. You're the unsung heroes given a voice here.
I think I see myself (or rather, my hat and the bit of string holding my bib n' brace together)!
Watched this three times now and I keep finding new highlights - first watch I just got excited about all of us singing, and whenever the curly dog turned up, second watch I saw the other dog and got a proper look at the group in 'Victorian Orphan' style, third watch someone has a WIZARD HAT and there's a tiny child absoloutely overcome with Socialist zeal...I love these videos, there's always so much going on. I'm in awe of how you ever organise any of it.
Love seeing how everyone of such different jobs is valuable and makes a difference in our world, even when they go unappreciated
wonderfull! ✊️ workers unite evenually we will win never give up!! Im a cabinet maker
Amen. All of us who are affected by the leader's decisions are the workers, whether in a factory, on a truck, in uniform, behind a desk, behind a counter, and so much more. Every single goods and services position out there is there for a reason and most often under-appreciated, under-valued, under-compensated and even those in the position often hold no pride in the work, just living to work. I dream and personally work toward a better society. Thank you for this.
I absolutely adore how many people chipped in for this, and how many showed up in their uniforms to contribute!
Workers of the world unite in solidarity! Organize, march, and above all else. Love yourself and you fellow workers. Demand better.
Songs like this do two important things. It tells everyone who toils and suffers that you are not alone. And more importantly, it offers solidarity in knowing we are strong together.
This gave the best kind of goosebumps. As a disabled textile worker, thank you for such a beautiful reminder that apart we are only threads, but united we are a strong weave. 💖
As a worker who’s brothers and sisters have abandoned the union, I teared up. I wish we could get a collective again. Hopes to one day it being better.
Goosebumps every single listen
The future doesn't suck so long as we have community
Art is such an important of the labor movement. Artists are workers too. From a machinist whos the son of a machinist, thank you.
Workers unionize! - A French worker. Solidarity !
I have a feeling this song is gonna slowly or quickly, but surely make a resurgence as more and more folks start to become more and more disassociated aware of the world
workers of the world unite!!!!
The Seattle Labor Chorus is in awe. Thank you!
I've been a truck driver for almost 2 years and this is absolutely right up there in sing-alongs for me!
thank you to all the hard workers out there you are all loved and appreciated x
This song always makes me cry in a way other working songs don't and I just realized why. There is something so very British about the resignation it expresses. It's a worker's song, but it's not a song of rebellion and that's what is missing. Slovene working songs will express the bad conditions in the first stanzas, but they will end with a call to rebel and a desire to overcome these conditions. This songs is so symptomatic of the British resistance to protest and rebellion that has meant the people have tolerated things from their leaders that would have had every other European country on the streets years ago.
nothing to lose but our chains
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This song makes me cry because it hits too close to home. That hurts. I am also very grateful that we have such awesome people in the world. Everyone deserves a better world.
It was a great joy to take part in this! Definitely looking forward to record the next one.
Thank you so much!!!
Happy May Day, everyone. Stand with unions and support workers' rights ✊
Love this song, so many workers are so under appreciated and without them the world would fall apart. Great work to everyone who feels underappreciated and go all the workers out there.
Great job to all the people who took part, to the longest John's who write/sing these awesome songs. Awesome props to the editors, love how I could see everyone. Cant wait to do more
I didn't expect to find myself among all the great submissions in this, but I'm clearly visible several times (right next to Dave). That kind of made my day. :)
Wonderful song, wonderful message; thank you, TLJ, for letting us all be a part of it!
Amazing work! Workers of the world, unite!
Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!
Preach comrade :)
All to gain, but you risk building stronger chains if sucessful.
@@avionrico6941 High risk, high reward.
@@professorgrimm4602 That's one way to look at it. The way I see it, democratic reform of capitalism is an objectively better solution than communism, because 99% of the time, communism ends up being an authoritarian hellscape
@@avionrico6941 My friend capitalism is the system of stock holders demanding more and more growth for more and more payout. They are why the workers can't dictate their schedules, their production, their pay etc. For every dollar someone earns that isn't worked for there is someone creating a dollar of earnings they will never receive. There is no reform of capitalism. Labor and Capital will always be at odds until one wipes out the other.
bravo to everyone who got to take part, that was lovely
Thanks so much! Don’t miss out on future ones, would love to have you