Five hundred men sacked for refusing   To ever cross a picket line   The voices down the ages warning   Never cross a picket line   You must never cross a picket line      Two years gone by but still they never   Ever cross a picket line   With their wives and children they stand together   Never cross a picket line   You must never cross a picket line      Look away, look away   Look away out west to San Francisco   Look away, look away   Look away down south to Sydney Harbour   Where the dockers have organised   The world's longest picket line      Technically this is an illegal strike   Never cross a picket line   But technically workers have no rights   Never cross a picket line   You must never cross a picket line      Oh, I want to live in a Brand New Britain   Never cross a picket line   Where workers rights are enshrined and written   Never cross a picket line   You must never cross a picket line      Look away, look away   Look away out west to San Diego   Look away, look away   Look away out east to far Osaka   Where the dockers have organised   The world's longest picket line      The Tories are gone but there's no improvement   Never cross a picket line   Now where is the might of the Labour movement   Never cross a picket line   You must never cross a picket line      Look away, look away   Look away down south to Auckland City   Look away, look away   Look away out west to old Vancouver   Where the dockers have organised   The world's longest picket line      Where the dockers have realised   You must never cross a picket line