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Re: OT: Joe Hill

From:Tony Hogard <james.hogard@...>
Date:Monday, December 24, 2001, 15:33
The Gray Wizard:

>>> I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night >>> Alive as you and me. >>> Said I, but Joe, you're ten years dead. >>> I never died said he >>> I never died said he
> The song was written by Alfred Hayes sometime in the late '30s and > sung by a > number of people thereafter including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and > Joan > Baez. Such were the legends of my youth.
Phil Ochs also wrote a "Joe Hill". http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics/joe-hill.html -Tone, young(ish) folkie (of sorts)