Key: Db major
Verse 1
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Joe Hill come over
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Looking for some work to do
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And the Statue of Liberty waved him by
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As Joe come a sailing through.
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As he headed for the promised land
streets
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streets
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Before he began to understand
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And Joe got hired by a bowery bar
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sweeping up the saloon
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the barroom rail
You could almost hear him
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whistling on a tune
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And Joe rolled on from job to job
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From the docks to the railroad line
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the hand that wrote
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In his letters he was al ways doing fine
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slowly turn the page
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He had nothing to show but his age
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He had nothing to show but his age
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There things were just as bad
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So he joined the Industrial Work
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only friend he had
'Cause, The union was the
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only friend he had
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as hard as they were long
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would stay awake and write
them with a song
In the morning he would
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raise them with a song
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To be passed along the union vine
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the songs were spread
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line
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There was hardly a clue to find
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but the sheriff was sure
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That Joe was the killer of the crime
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he had nothing but guilt to give
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they left him to bleed
Yes, He made it 'cause he
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had the will to live
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And there the killer would be named
Cause he feared that he was
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he was being framed
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Strange are the ways of fate
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the mine owner's call
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Yes, The judge was ap
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Oh, Utah justice can be had
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But not for a union man
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That there'd be one less
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singer in the land
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There'd be one less singer in the land
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Now William Spry was Governor Spry
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And a life was his to hold
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fell a governor's tear
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May the lord have mercy on your soul
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Even President Wilson held up the day
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But even he would fail
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searching words
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Of the soul in the Salt Lake City jail
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Of the soul in the Salt Lake City jail
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For 36 years he lived out his days
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And he more than played his part
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he was carefully paid
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With a rifle bullet buried in his heart
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Blindfold over his eyes
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he chose to live
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It's the death of a rebel that he died
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And some say he wasn't even there
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And I guess nobody will ever know
all disappeared
'Cause the court records
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all disappeared
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Say wherever you go in this fair land
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In every union hall
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In the dusty dark these words are marked
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In between all the cracks upon the wall
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It's the very last line that Joe Will wrote
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"Boys, this is my last and final will
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Good luck to all of you"
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