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Lyrics for Joe Hill by Phil Ochs:
| | | Artist: | Phil Ochs |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Joe Hill | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 61 | | | | Lyrics: | F Fsus F C (open D stringthen back on 2nd fret)
Joe Hill come over from
Sweden shores
F Fsus F C
Looking for some work to do
F
C Am
And the Statue of Liberty waved him by
C (Open D
stringplace finger on G st. 2nd fretreturn)
As Joe come a sailing
through, Joe Hill
C G7 C
As Joe come a sailing through.
Oh his
clothes were coarse and his hopes were high
As he headed for the promised land
And it took a
few weeks on the out-of-work streets
Before he began to understand
Before he began to
understand
And Joe got hired by a bowery bar
sweeping up the saloon
As his rag
would sail over the baroom rail
Sounded like he whistled on a tune
You could almost hear him
whistling on a tune
And Joe rolled on from job to job
From the docks to the railroad
line
And no matter how hungry the hand that wrote
In his letters he was always doing
fine
In his letters he was always doing fine
Oh, the years went by like the sun goin'
down
slowly turn the page
And when Joe looked back at the sweat upon his tracks
He had
nothing to show but his age
He had nothing to show but his age
So he headed out for the
California shore
There things were just as bad
So he joined the industrial workers of the
world
'Cause, The union was the only friend he had
'Cause, The union was the only friend he
had
Now the strikes were bloody and the strikes were black
as hard as they were
long
In the dark of night Joe would stay awake and write
In the morning he would raise them
with a song
In the morning he would raise them with a song
And he wrote hi | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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