5 Things (from The Alliance Theatre Staging Of "Working: A Musical")

[Deborah:]
31 years since Nelson Mandela
Said something I did changed something far away
That's when I knew it does not matter
Cause my mind has the very last say
Don't matter how little my hands might be
If I can simply change the way I think
Then I can change anything, anything

[Cast:]
Rise up
Organize strategize mobilize
Stand up
Organize strategize mobilize
Build up
Organize strategize mobilize
Trade up
Organize strategize and mobilize
Show up
Mobilize
Show up

[Cast:]
Use your hands
If you want to change it
[Deborah:]
Yes I can
[Cast:]
Are the words we're saying
When we stand
And work to make it right

[Ryan:]
A long way from war new battle before me
Reminds me I learned to hide in plain sight
Straps cinched on their backpacks, wandering the streets
It's hard to sleep in my own bed at night
[Xochitl:]
I came here for love, came to recover
After Hurricane Katrina took all that I knew
Organizing is hard work its heart work
And always feels too big when the day is through
[Ryan:]
I see you in the shadows, even when you disappear
No one should be homeless
They fought for the rest of us
They deserve the best of us
Why are our veterans living here
[Xochitl:]
But we get through, make something new, we move on and it's still there
[Ryan:]
They are what all this is built on
[Xochitl:]
We are the power and
[Ryan/Xochitl:]
We are everywhere

[Cast:]
Rise up
Organize strategize mobilize
Stand up
Organize strategize mobilize
Build up
Organize strategize mobilize
Trade up
Organize strategize and mobilize
Show up
Mobilize
Show up

[Cast:]
Use your hands
If you want to change it
Yes we can
[Xochitl:]
Are the words I'm saying
[Cast:]
When we stand
[Ryan:]
Stand up to make it right

We are (use your hands)
We are more than one
When we move together
Don't stop (yes we can)
Until it's done
Till we make it better
You thought that it couldn't be done
But look at what we did
We keep working until

It's in our DNA
We rebel
Gate City
Raised me well
Local union, AFL
CIO, never fell
Fight Against
Our voting hell
Organize
And watch it swell
Rising Tide
Till overwhelm
Welcome to the A-T-L
Say it with me A-T-L
Welcome to the A-T-L
Say it with me A-T-L
Welcome to the A-T-L
We're led by Black women
Black leaders, queer, trans
Working class
Immigrant, indigenous-resistance lineage
LatinX & Asian
City I was raised in
Never gonna cave in
Marching on the pavement
Pay dues, pay rent
Praise God, patience
Got a Governor
Staying
Jim Crow adjacent
Welcome to the A-T-L
Welcome to the A-T-L
Say it with me A-T-L
Welcome to the A-T-L

Show up, show up

[Cast:]
We are
We are more than one
When we move together
Don't stop
Until it's done
Till we make it better
You thought that it couldn't be done
But look at what we did
We kept working until we
[Deborah:]
Won (1)
[Cast:]
Rise up
[Deborah:]
2
[Cast:]
Stand up
[Deborah:]
3
[Cast:]
Build up
[Deborah:]
4
[Cast:]
Trade up
[Deborah:]
5 things
[Cast:]
Show up