Ships pass many seas
They are built in many countries
A few of them are built in the city Gothemburg
Are built in the shipyard Arendal
By the workers on Arendal

The competetion is rough
How are we supposed to sell our ships?
The directors in the yards office said
We'll construct as cheaply and profitable as possible
And you Bength Tengroth you will raise our profit and lower the wages on Arendal

With sparks and welding and bang and roar
With the cold of beams and steel
With hammer strikes and sledge blows
The workers toil in Arendal
The shipyard Arendal

With some people who are well paid
Who call themselves the men of the workers
Those who don't have to sweat in a workshop floor
They figured out how the lowering of wages would take place
The Social Democrats of Arendal

They said monthly paid was good for us, but wages went down
We are evaluated like animals
Now we're supposed to bow, to grind, toil and struggle
And we still don't get the pay that we used to get
The workers of Arendal said

Anger is rising
It's shouted somewhere
We wont approve of this
It's a knife to the throath when wife and children
are to be supported with less on my paycheck
With less on my paycheck

Wild strike! Wild strike!
That is the path for us!
These devils shall see!
That there is no gain and no profits
when nobody works here at Arendal
Here at the shipyard Arendal

(spoken)
It was the day the strike broke out that we realized what had happened
The monthly wage was a bluff
The stress and bustle that the accords brought with them would still remain
We were to be merit evaluated, god bless us
But what made us the angriest was that they hade lowered our wages
It was true that which our work comrades had said
They had handed out flyers about this several times
And now we joined them
We elected many new comrades in the strike-commitee too
Yeah, what the Social Democrats had accomplished
Was very clear
They had been there to help lower our wages
But the only thing that can make the capitalists agree on things
Is that you stop working so they don't make a profit
I guess thats why the bourgeois and Social Democrats and VPK bustles us like mad men
Many listened to them
And we hadn't anticipated that
That's why we made a misstake

(song again)
With our fits cleched, we rushed out
The doubting still standing inside
Inside the fence gate they are taken care of
By the bought Social Fascists
And the strike died out at Arendal

The strike was a fiasco,
The Social Democrats said and grinned
And then they begun cleaning out
They fired eleven that had defended their wage
Now order rules, but a thought is born
Amongst the workers of Arendal

At Arendal, in oktober 72'
The hundreds of workers
That when the enemy no longer can divide their struggle
Then the workers of Arendal win
At the shipyard Arendal