Joe Hill come over from Sweden Looking for some to do And the Statue of 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 for the promised land 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 Sweeping up the As his rag sail over the barroom rail Sounded like he on a tune 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 hand wrote In his letters he was always doing In his letters he was always doing
Oh, the went 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 out for the California shore There things just as bad So he the industrial workers of the world 'Cause the was the only friend he had the union was the only friend he had
Now, the strikes 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 morning he would raise with a song
And he wrote his words to the of the day To be passed along the 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 Lake a murder was made There was hardly a clue to Oh, the was poor but the sheriff was sure Joe was the killer of the That Joe was the of the crime
Joe raised his but they 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 will to
Then the trial was in a building of wood And there the killer be named And the weighed more 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 crawled to the mine owner's call the judge was appointed by the state 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 singer in the There'd be one singer in the land
Now, Spry was Governor Spry And a life was his to On the last appeal, fell a tear "May the Lord mercy on your soul May the have mercy on your soul"
Even President held up the day But even he would For nobody heard the soul words Of the soul in the Salt City jail Of the soul in the Salt City jail
For 36 years he out his days And he than played his part For his songs he made, he was carefully paid With a rifle bullet in his heart a rifle bullet buried in his heart
Yes, they lined Joe up against the wall over his eyes It's the life of a rebel he chose to live It's the death of a rebel that he It's the death of a that he died
Now, some say Joe was guilty as And some say he even there And I guess nobody will know 'Cause the records all disappeared the court records all disappeared
Say wherever you go in this fair land in every hall In the dark these words are marked In between all the cracks upon the In all the cracks upon the wall
It's the last line that Joe Hill wrote When he that his days were through "Boys, this is my last and will Good to all of you, good luck to all of you"