Joe Hill, sångaren och rebellen mördades av Utahs mormonkapitalism

den 19 nov. 1915

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Jukebox Tebordet - Socialism

[Solidarity Forever] | [Follow the drinking gourd] | [Joe Hill Svarta präster]

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Commonwealth of Toil


Tune: Darling Nelly Gray
Lyrics: Ralph Chaplin

In the gloom of mighty cities
'Mid the roar of whirling wheels
We are toiling on like chattel slaves of old,
And our masters hope to keep us
Ever thus beneath their heels
And to coin our very life blood into gold.

But we have a glowing dream
Of how fair the world will seem
When each man can live his life secure and free;
When the earth is owned by Labor
And there's love and peace for all
in the Commonwealth of Toil that is to he.

They would keep us cowed and beaten
Cringing meekly at their feet
They would stand between each worker and his bread.
Shall we yield our lives up to them
For the bitter crust we eat?
Shall we only hope for heaven when we're dead?

But we have a glowing dream
Of how fair the world will seem
When each man can live his life secure and free;
When the earth is owned by Labor
And there's love and peace for all
in the Commonwealth of Toil that is to he.

They have laid our lives out for us
To the utter end of time.
Shall we stagger on beneath their heavy load?
Shall we let them live forever
In their gilded halls of crime
With our children doomed to toil beneath their goad?

But we have a glowing dream
Of how fair the world will seem
When each man can live his life secure and free;
When the earth is owned by Labor
And there's love and peace for all
in the Commonwealth of Toil that is to he.

When our cause is all triumphant
And we claim our Mother Earth,
And the nightmare of the present fades away,
We shall live with love and laughter,
We who now are little worth,
And we'll not regret the price we have to pay.

But we have a glowing dream
Of how fair the world will seem
When each man can live his life secure and free;
When the earth is owned by Labor
And there's love and peace for all
in the Commonwealth of Toil that is to he.




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Solidarity forever
the anthem of the American labor movement

Solidarity forever - text och midi

"Solidarity Forever"
is the most popular union song
on the North American continent.

If a union member knows only one union song it is
almost sure to be this. It has become, in effect,
the anthem of the American labor movement.
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om Solidarity Forever
Solidarity forever
text: Ralph Chaplin
melodi: Battle Hymn of the Republic


When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
But the union makes us strong.

CHORUS:
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong.


Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite,
Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?
Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?
For the union makes us strong.

CHORUS:
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong.


It is we who plowed the praries; built the cities where they trade;
Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;
Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made;
But the union makes us strong.

CHORUS:
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong.


All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone.
We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone.
It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own.
While the union makes us strong.

CHORUS:
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong.


They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong.

CHORUS:
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong.


In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong.

CHORUS:
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong.



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Follow the drinking gourd
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NASA Explanation of "Follow the Drinking Gourd"
Lesson Plans
New lyrics and song:
On An Underground Railroad

Dagens visa 2002 november 19
When the sun goes back
    and the first quail calls
Follow the drinking gourd
The old man is a-waitin' for
    to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd

Chorus
Follow the drinking gourd,
follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is a-waitin'
to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd

The river bed makes a mighty fine road,
Dead trees to show you the way
And it's left foot, peg foot, traveling on
Follow the drinking gourd

Chorus
Follow the drinking gourd,
follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is a-waitin'
to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd

The river ends between two hills
Follow the drinking gourd
There's another river on the other side
Follow the drinking gourd

Chorus
Follow the drinking gourd,
follow the drinking gourd
For the old man is a-waitin'
to carry you to freedom
Follow the drinking gourd

I thought I heard the angels say
Follow the drinking gourd
The stars in the heavens
     gonna show you the way
Follow the drinking gourd

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Joe Hill - arbetarsångaren
Joe Hill - Josef Hillström - Joel Hägglund
född den 7 oktober 1879, Gävle
död den 19 november 1915, Utah

I början av 1916 utkom på Axel Holmströms förlag en av Albert Jensen författad 24-sidig broschyr:

Josef Hillström, sångaren och rebellen som mördades av Utahs mormonkapitalism

den 19 nov. 1915

Joe Hills sånger finns utgivna på Bokförlaget Prisma

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Svarta präster
text: Joe Hill
svensk text: Ture Nerman
melodi: In the sweet by and by
Originaltitel: The preacher and the slave

Svarta präster står opp titt och tätt:
Lär dej skilja på synd och på rätt,
men begär du ett torrt stycke bröd,
sjunger kören i trossäker glöd:

Du får mat, o kamrat,
uti himmelens härliga stat!
Svält förnöjd! O var fröjd!
Du får kalvstek i himmelens höjd!

Du står arbetslös på trottoarn,
du får svälta med hustru och barn.
Men var tålig, som Herren befallt -
se, därovanom ordnar sej allt!

Du får mat, o kamrat,
uti himmelens härliga stat!
Svält förnöjd! O var fröjd!
Du får kalvstek i himmelens höjd!

Bränner nöden därhemma, så vet:
Varje jul finns det välgörenhet!
Om du bugar dej djupt, kan du få
en kopp kaffe att fortsätta på.

Du får mat, o kamrat,
uti himmelens härliga stat!
Svält förnöjd! O var fröjd!
Du får kalvstek i himmelens höjd!

Du blir gammal och bräcklig och grå,
du blir körd från ditt arbete då,
du får folkpension lagom till snus,
men din framtid är ljuvlig och ljus!

Du får mat, o kamrat,
uti himmelens härliga stat!
Svält förnöjd! O var fröjd!
Du får kalvstek i himmelens höjd!

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