Joe Hill come over Sweden shores for some 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 coarse and his hopes were high As he for the promised land And it took a few weeks on the out-of-work Before he began to Before he began to
And Joe got by a Bowery bar up the saloon As his rag would sail the barroom rail like he whistled on a tune You almost hear him whistling on a tune
And Joe on from job to job From the to the railroad line And no how hungry the hand that wrote In his letters he was always doing In his letters he was always fine
Oh, the years went by like the sun goin' Slowly the page and when Joe Looked back at the sweat upon his He had to show but his age He had to show but his age
So he headed out for the California There were just as bad So he the industrial workers of the world 'Cause the union was the friend he had 'Cause the union was the only he had
Now, the were bloody and the strikes Were black as hard as they 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 along the union vine And the strikes led and the songs were spread And Joe was always on the line Yes, Joe Hill was on the line
Now, in Salt City a murder was made There was hardly a to find Oh, the proof was poor but the sheriff was Joe was the killer of the Joe was the killer of the crime
Joe raised his hands but shot him down He had nothing but guilt to It's a I need and they left him to bleed He made it 'cause he had the will to Yes, he made it 'cause he had the to live
Then the was held in a building of wood And there the killer be named And the days weighed more the cold copper ore 'Cause he feared he was being framed 'Cause he out that he was being framed
Oh, are the ways of western law Strange are the of fate For the government crawled to the mine call That the judge was by the state Yes, the judge was appointed by the
Oh, Utah justice can be had but not for a man And Joe was warned by summer morn That there'd be one singer in the land There'd be one less singer in the
Now, William Spry was Governor And a was his to hold On the appeal, fell a governor's tear "May the Lord have mercy on soul May the Lord have mercy on soul"
Even President held up the day But even he would For nobody heard the soul searching Of the soul in the Salt Lake jail Of the soul in the Salt City jail
For 36 he lived out his days And he more played his part For his songs he made, he was carefully paid With a rifle bullet buried in his With a rifle bullet in his heart
Yes, lined Joe Hill up against the wall Blindfold 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, say Joe was guilty as charged And some say he even there And I guess nobody ever know 'Cause the court records all 'Cause the court all disappeared
Say wherever you go in this fair land in every union In the dusty dark words are marked In all the cracks upon the wall In between all the cracks upon the
the very last line that Joe Hill wrote When he knew that his were through "Boys, this is my last and final Good to all of you, good luck to all of you"