Joe come over from Sweden shores Looking for some to do And the Statue of Liberty him by As Joe a sailing through, Joe Hill As Joe come a sailing
Oh his were coarse and his hopes were high As he headed for the land And it a few weeks on the out-of-work streets Before he to understand Before he to understand
And Joe got hired by a bar up the saloon As his rag sail over 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 to the railroad line And no matter how the hand that wrote In his he was always doing fine In his letters he was always doing
Oh, the years went by like the sun goin' turn 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 were just as bad So he joined the industrial workers of the 'Cause the union was the only he had 'Cause the was the only friend he had
Now, the strikes bloody and the strikes Were black as hard as they long In the of night Joe would stay awake and write In the morning he would raise them with a In the morning he would them with a song
And he wrote his to the tunes of the day To be passed the union vine And the strikes were led and the were spread And Joe Hill was always on the Yes, Joe Hill was on the line
Now, in Salt Lake City a was made There was hardly a 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 they 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 made it he had the will to live
Then the was held in a building of wood And there the killer would be And the days weighed more the cold copper ore 'Cause he that he was being framed 'Cause he found out that he was framed
Oh, strange are the ways of law Strange are the of fate For the crawled to the mine owner's 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 by summer early morn That there'd be one less singer in the There'd be one singer in the land
Now, William Spry was Spry And a life was his to On the last appeal, fell a tear "May the Lord have mercy on your May the Lord have mercy on soul"
President Wilson held up the day But even he fail For nobody the soul searching words Of the soul in the Lake City jail Of the soul in the Salt Lake City
For 36 years he lived out his And he more played his part 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 Joe Hill up against the wall Blindfold his eyes It's the of a rebel that he chose to live It's the of a rebel that he died It's the death of a rebel that he
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 court all disappeared
Say wherever you go in this fair in every union hall In the dusty these words are marked In all the cracks upon the wall In between all the upon 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"