Re: OT: Joe Hill

> From: Roger Mills
>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Joe Hill
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "The Gray Wizard" >>
> >>
> >> > Old fogies reference and apropos of nothing -
> >> >
> >> > I find myself totally unable to read a post from Joe without
> >> singing in my
> >> > head:
> >> >
> >> > 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
> >> >
> >> > Sorry!
> >
> Ah, yes. I had the same association, and thought perhaps
> (Conlang) Joe Hill
> might be a pseudonym......In college days (a bit earlier than
> you, even) we
> got into Labor songs, Spanish Civil War songs-- the idea of a bunch of
> snotty Harvard kids sitting around singing these things is rather
> startling.
> Oddly enough, we also got a peculiar frisson from a recording of Nazi
> marching songs.  The power of music!
In my case it was Princeton, although I was singing them at camp long before
then.  Let's see "Viva La Quince Brigade", "Los Quatros Generales", et al.

Spaniens Himmel breitet seine Sterne
Ueber unsren Schuetzengraeben aus.
Und der Morgen gruesst schon aus der Ferne
Bald geht es zu neuem Kampf hinaus.

Freiheit,
David