Song Lyrics Ochs Phil - Joe Hill    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> O>> Ochs Phil Singer Lyrics [Ochs Phil other resources]>> Joe Hill Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Ochs Phil Music Title/Track: Joe Hill Theme ID: 1217 Album: N/A 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 Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Pretty Smart On My Part, Song Of My Returning, Thats What I Want To Hear, The Confession, We Seek No Wider War, When Im Gone, White Boots Marching In A Yellow Land, Ballad of Oxford (Jimmy Meredith), City Boy, Colored Town, Do What I Have To Do, Ill Be There, No Christmas in Kentucky, Paul Crump, Ballad Of Medgar Evers, Davey Moore, How Long, Links On The Chain, Talking Birmingham Jam, The Party, What Are You Fighting For, Bwatue, Heres To The State Of Richard Nixon (Live), My Kingdom For A Car, Automation Song, Ballad of William Worthy, Bullets Of Mexico, Celia, Lou Marsh, Talking Cuban Crisis, Talking Vietnam, The Thresher, Days Of Decision, That Was The President, Ive Had Her, The Harder They Fall, My Life, Another Country, Christine Keeler, Hazard, Kentucky, If I Knew, On My Way, Remember Me, Rivers Of The Blood, Spaceman, Spanish Civil War Song, Thats The Way Its Gonna Be, The Passing Of My Life, A Stor Mo Chroi, Down By The Salley Gardens, Other Ochs Phil song Lyrics Bracero Lyrics Cannons Of Christianity Lyrics Changes Lyrics Cops Of The World Lyrics Im Going to Say It Now Lyrics Is There Anybody Here Lyrics Love Me Im A Liberal Lyrics Love Me, Im a Liberal Lyrics Power And Glory Lyrics Ringing Of Revolution Lyrics The Marines Have Landed On The Shores Of Santo Dom Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Oconnell Maura Lyrics Oconnor Hazel Lyrics Oconnor Sinead Lyrics Octagon Dr Lyrics Octavia Lyrics October 31 Lyrics October Project Lyrics Oda Lyrics Odd Man Out Lyrics Odd Nordstoga Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy