Joe Hill come over from Sweden for some work to do And the Statue of waved him by As Joe a sailing through, Joe Hill As Joe come a sailing
Oh his clothes were coarse and his hopes were As he headed for the land And it took a few on the out-of-work streets he began to understand Before he to understand
And Joe got hired by a bar Sweeping up the As his rag sail over the barroom rail Sounded like he on a tune You could almost hear him whistling on a
And Joe rolled on job to job From the to the railroad line And no matter how hungry the hand wrote In his letters he was doing fine In his letters he was always fine
Oh, the years went by like the sun down Slowly the page and when Joe Looked back at the upon his tracks He had nothing to but his age He had to show but his age
So he headed out for the California There things were as bad So he joined the industrial of the world the union was the only friend he had 'Cause the union was the only he had
Now, the strikes were bloody and the Were as hard as they were long In the dark of night Joe would stay awake and In the morning he would them with a song In the morning he 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 Salt City a murder was made There was a clue to find Oh, the was poor but the sheriff was sure 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 to give a doctor I need and they left him to bleed He it 'cause he had the will to live Yes, he made it 'cause he had the to live
Then the trial was in a building of wood And the killer would be named And the days weighed than the cold copper ore 'Cause he feared that he was framed 'Cause he out that he was being framed
Oh, strange are the ways of law Strange are the of fate For the government crawled to the mine owner's That the judge was appointed by the Yes, the judge was by the state
Oh, Utah can be had but not for a union man And Joe was warned by early morn That there'd be one less in the land There'd be one less singer in the
Now, William Spry was Spry And a was his to hold On the last appeal, a governor's tear "May the have mercy on your soul May the Lord have on your soul"
President Wilson held up the day But he would fail For nobody heard the soul searching Of the soul in the Lake City jail Of the soul in the Salt Lake jail
For 36 years he out his days And he more than played his For his songs that he made, he was paid a rifle bullet buried in his heart With a bullet buried in his heart
Yes, they lined Joe Hill up the wall Blindfold over his It's the life of a 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 as charged And say he wasn't even there And I guess nobody will ever 'Cause the court records all the court records all disappeared
Say you go in this fair land in every union hall In the dusty these words are marked In between all the upon the wall In between all the cracks the wall
the very last line that Joe Hill wrote When he knew that his days were "Boys, this is my last and will Good luck to all of you, luck to all of you"