Joe Hill come over Sweden shores Looking for some to do And the Statue of Liberty him by As Joe come a sailing through, Joe As Joe come a through
Oh his clothes were coarse and his hopes high As he headed for the land And it took a few weeks on the streets Before he to understand Before he began to
And Joe got by a Bowery bar up the saloon As his rag would sail over the rail Sounded like he on a tune You could almost hear him on a tune
And Joe on from job to job the docks to the railroad line And no matter how hungry the hand wrote In his letters he was always fine In his letters he was always doing
Oh, the years went by like the sun down Slowly turn the and when Joe back at the sweat upon his tracks He had nothing to but his age He had to show but his age
So he out for the California shore There were just as bad So he joined the industrial workers of the the union was the only friend he had 'Cause the was the only friend he had
Now, the strikes were and the strikes Were black as hard as they were In the dark of night Joe would stay and write In the morning he raise them with a song In the morning he would them with a song
And he wrote his words to the of the day To be passed along the vine And the strikes were led and the songs were And Joe was always on the line Yes, Joe was always on the line
Now, in Salt Lake City a murder was There was hardly a to find Oh, the proof was poor but the sheriff was Joe was the killer of the That Joe was the killer of the
Joe his hands but they shot him down He had nothing but guilt to It's a doctor I need and they him to bleed He made it 'cause he had the to live Yes, he made it he had the will to live
Then the trial was held in a of wood And there the would be named And the days weighed than the cold copper ore 'Cause he that he was being framed he found out that he was being framed
Oh, strange are the of western law are the ways of fate For the government crawled to the owner's call That the was appointed by the state Yes, the judge was appointed by the
Oh, Utah justice can be had but not for a man And Joe was by summer early morn That there'd be one less singer in the There'd be one less singer in the
Now, Spry was Governor Spry And a life was his to On the last appeal, a governor's tear "May the Lord have mercy on your May the Lord have mercy on soul"
Even Wilson held up the day But even he fail For nobody the soul searching words Of the soul in the Salt City jail Of the in the Salt Lake City jail
For 36 he lived out his days And he than played his part For his that he made, he was carefully paid With a rifle buried in his heart With a rifle bullet in his heart
Yes, they lined Joe Hill up the wall over his eyes It's the life of a rebel he chose to live It's the death of a rebel he died It's the of a rebel that he died
Now, some say Joe was as charged And some say he wasn't there And I guess nobody will know 'Cause the court records all the court records all disappeared
Say wherever you go in this fair land in every union In the dusty dark words are marked In between all the cracks the wall In all the cracks upon the wall
the very last line that Joe Hill wrote When he knew that his were through "Boys, this is my last and will Good to all of you, good luck to all of you"