Joe Hill come over from shores Looking for work to do And the Statue of waved him by As Joe come a through, Joe Hill As Joe come a through
Oh his clothes were coarse and his hopes were As he headed for the land And it took a few weeks on the out-of-work he began to understand Before he to understand
And Joe got by a Bowery bar up the saloon As his rag sail over the barroom rail Sounded like he whistled on a You could hear him whistling on a tune
And Joe on from job to job the docks to the railroad line And no matter how hungry the that wrote In his he was always doing fine In his letters he was doing fine
Oh, the years by like the sun goin' down turn the page and when Joe Looked back at the sweat upon his He had nothing to but his age He had nothing to but his age
So he headed out for the shore There things just as bad So he joined the industrial of the world 'Cause the union was the only he had the union was the only friend he had
Now, the strikes bloody and the strikes black as hard as they were long In the dark of night Joe would stay and write In the morning he raise them with a song In the morning he raise them with a song
And he his words to the tunes of the day To be passed along the union And the strikes were led and the were spread And Joe was always on the line Yes, Joe was always on the line
Now, in Lake City a murder was made was hardly a clue to find Oh, the proof was poor but the sheriff was Joe was the of the crime That Joe was the killer of the
Joe raised his hands but they him down He had but guilt to give It's a doctor I need and they left him to He made it he had the will to live Yes, he made it 'cause he had the to live
Then the trial was held in a building of And the killer would be named And the days more than the cold copper ore 'Cause he feared that he was framed he found out that he was being framed
Oh, are the ways of western law Strange are the ways of For the government crawled to the owner's call That the judge was appointed by the Yes, the was appointed by the state
Oh, Utah can be had but not for a union man And Joe was by summer early morn That be one less singer in the land There'd be one singer in the land
Now, William was Governor Spry And a life was his to On the last appeal, fell a tear "May the Lord have on your soul May the Lord mercy on your soul"
Even President held up the day But even he would For nobody heard the soul searching Of the soul in the Lake City jail Of the soul in the Salt City jail
For 36 he lived out his days And he more than played his For his songs he made, he was carefully paid With a rifle buried in his heart With a bullet buried in his heart
Yes, they Joe Hill up against the wall Blindfold over his It's the of a rebel that he chose to live It's the death of a rebel he died the death of a rebel that he died
Now, some say Joe was guilty as And some say he wasn't there And I guess will ever know the court records all disappeared 'Cause the court records all
Say wherever you go in this fair land in every union In the dusty these words are marked In between all the cracks upon the In between all the cracks upon the
It's the very line that Joe Hill wrote When he knew his days were through "Boys, this is my and final will Good to all of you, good luck to all of you"