Joe Hill come from Sweden shores Looking for work to do And the of Liberty waved him by As Joe come a through, Joe Hill As Joe come a sailing
Oh his clothes were and his hopes were high As he headed for the promised And it a few weeks on the out-of-work streets 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 Sounded he whistled on a tune You could almost hear him on a tune
And Joe on from job to job From the docks to the line And no matter how the hand that wrote In his letters he was always fine In his letters he was doing fine
Oh, the years went by like the sun down turn the page and when Joe Looked back at the sweat 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 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 were long In the dark of night Joe stay awake and write In the he would raise them with a song In the he would raise them with a song
And he wrote his to the tunes of the day To be along the union vine And the strikes were led and the songs were And Joe was always on the line Yes, Joe Hill was on the line
Now, in Lake City a murder was made There was a clue to find Oh, the proof was but the sheriff was sure Joe was the of the crime That Joe was the killer of the
Joe raised his hands but shot him down He had but guilt to give It's a doctor I need and left him to bleed He made it 'cause he had the will to Yes, he it 'cause 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 more the cold copper ore 'Cause he feared that he was being he found out that he was being framed
Oh, are the ways of western law are the ways of fate For the government crawled to the mine call That the judge was appointed by the Yes, the judge was by the state
Oh, justice can be had but not for a union man And Joe was warned by summer early That there'd be one less singer in the There'd be one less in the land
Now, Spry was Governor Spry And a was his to hold On the last appeal, a governor's tear "May the Lord have on your soul May the Lord have mercy on soul"
President Wilson held up the day But even he would For nobody heard the soul searching Of the in the Salt Lake City jail Of the in the Salt Lake City jail
For 36 years he out his days And he more than played his For his songs that he made, he was carefully With a rifle buried in his heart With a bullet buried in his heart
Yes, they lined Joe up against the wall Blindfold over his It's the life of a rebel 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 as charged And some say he even there And I guess nobody ever know 'Cause the records all disappeared 'Cause the records all disappeared
Say wherever you go in this fair land in union hall In the dusty these words are marked In all the cracks upon the wall In between all the cracks upon the
It's the very last line that Joe wrote When he knew that his were through "Boys, this is my last and final Good luck to all of you, good to all of you"