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 were coarse and his hopes were high As he for the promised land And it took a few weeks on the out-of-work he began to understand Before he began to
And Joe got hired by a bar Sweeping up the As his rag would sail the barroom rail Sounded he whistled on a tune You could almost him whistling on a tune
And Joe on from job to job the docks to the railroad line And no how hungry the hand that wrote In his letters he was doing fine In his he was always doing fine
Oh, the went by like the sun goin' down Slowly turn the page and Joe Looked back at the upon his tracks He had to show but his age He had to show but his age
So he out for the California shore things were just as bad So he joined the industrial workers of the '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 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 would them with a song
And he wrote his to the tunes of the day To be passed along the union And the strikes were led and the songs spread And Joe was always on the line Yes, Joe Hill was on the line
Now, in Lake City a murder was made There was hardly a clue to Oh, the proof was but the sheriff was sure Joe was the killer of the That Joe was the of the crime
Joe his hands but they shot him down He had nothing but to give It's a doctor I need and they left him to He it 'cause he had the will to live Yes, he made it he had the will to live
Then the trial was in a building of wood And the killer would be named And the days more than the cold copper ore 'Cause he feared that he was framed 'Cause he found out 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 appointed by the Yes, the judge was by the state
Oh, Utah justice can be had but not for a man And Joe was warned by early morn That there'd be one singer in the land There'd be one singer in the land
Now, Spry was Governor Spry And a life was his to On the last appeal, a governor's tear "May the Lord have on your soul May the Lord have on your soul"
Even President Wilson up the day But even he would For heard the soul searching words Of the soul in the Salt City jail Of the soul in the Salt Lake City
For 36 he lived out his days And he more played his part For his songs that he made, he was carefully With a bullet buried in his heart With a rifle buried in his heart
Yes, lined Joe Hill up against the wall over his eyes It's the life of a rebel that he to live the death of a rebel that he died It's the 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 court all disappeared 'Cause the court all disappeared
Say wherever you go in fair land in every union hall In the dusty dark words are marked In all the cracks upon the wall In between all the upon the wall
It's the very last that Joe Hill wrote he knew that his days were through "Boys, this is my and final will luck to all of you, good luck to all of you"