VLVL2 (Chapter 6) - part 5

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From: "Mike Weaver" <mikeweaver at gn.apc.org>
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Subject: VLVL2 (Chapter 6) - part 5
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> 76.17 "Joe Hill" (1882 - 1915) was a Swedish emigrant who arrived in the
US
> in 1901, and fought in the Mexican revolution before becoming an IWW
> organizer in California in 1912. A songwriter as well as a soldier of
> fortune, he is credited as the author of many labor union songs, including
> Casey Jones (The Union Scab), The Preacher and the Slave, Rebel Girl, and
> many others. In 1915, Hill was framed on a murder charge, and executed by
> firing squad, in Utah. Whether in spite of, or because of, his murder, he
> went on to become a legendary labor hero, inspiring countless thousands of
> working men and women. Hill's life fully justifies his legend. (BoW)
>

Joe Hill - The Man behind the Martyr
http://www.pbs.org/joehill/story/index.html

And who doesn't remember Joan Baez singing "Joe Hill" at the Woodstock
Festival:

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
alive as you and me.
Says I "But Joe, you're ten years dead"
"I never died" said he,
"I never died" said he.

"The Copper Bosses killed you Joe,
they shot you Joe" says I.
"Takes more than guns to kill a man"
Says Joe "I didn't die"
Says Joe "I didn't die"

And standing there as big as life
and smiling with his eyes.
Says Joe "What they can never kill
went on to organize,
went on to organize"

>From San Diego up to Maine,
in every mine and mill,
where working-men defend there rights,
it's there you find Joe Hill,
it's there you find Joe Hill!

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
alive as you and me.
Says I "But Joe, you're ten years dead"
"I never died" said he,
"I never died" said he.
http://www.franksgedanken.de/lyrics/003/003748.html

Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger often performed this song and are associated
with it. But the best known performance and recording of "Joe Hill" was done
by Joan Baez at Woodstock in 1969.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill

sound sample.
http://mp3.rin.ru/eng/song/127612/

Phil Ochs mp3:
live in Montreal, 22 October 1966
http://hillstrom.iww.org/joehill.html