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Hellraisers Journal – Friday July 7, 1911
New I. W. W. Songbooks with New Song: “Long Haired Preachers”
From the Spokane Industrial Worker of July 6, 1911:
Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent
-Published by Spokane Local, I. W. W.
-New Song: “The Preacher and the Slave”
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Richard Brazier, BRSB p388 from Lbr Hx Winter 1968
From “The Story of the Little Red Songbook” by Richard Brazier
https://books.google.com/books?id=QaXECwAAQBAJ
Industrial Worker
(Spokane, Washington)
-July 6, 1911
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/industrialworker/iw/v3n15-w119-jul-06-1911-IW.pdf
Joe Hill
by Gibbs M. Smith
Gibbs Smith Inc, 1984
https://books.google.com/books?id=wFwsHQVuHVUC
Note page 234: “Preacher and the Slave” was originally credited to Brechler in the July 1911 edition of LRSB, finally credited to Joe Hill in March 1913 edition.
See also:
Tag: Little Red Songbook
https://weneverforget.org/tag/little-red-songbook/
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From Little Red Songbook of 1916, Joe Hill Memorial Edition
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Songs_of_the_Workers_(9th_edition)
page 14
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3ASongs_of_the_workers_9th_Edition.pdf/21
THE PREACHER AND THE SLAVE.
By Joe Hill.
(Tune: “Sweet Bye and Bye.”)
Long-haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right;
But when asked how ’bout something to eat
They will answer with voices so sweet:CHORUS:
You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.And the starvation army they play,
And they sing and clap and they pray
Till they get all your coin on the drum,
Then they’ll tell you when you’re on the bum:Holy Rollers and jumpers come out,
And they holler, they jump and they shout.
“Give your money to Jesus,” they say,
“He will cure all diseases today.”If you fight hard for children and wife—
Try to get something good in this life—
You’re a sinner and bad man, they tell,
When you die you will sure go to hell.Workingmen of all countries, unite,
Side by side we for freedom will fight;
When the world and its wealth we have gained
To the grafters we’ll sing this refrain:LAST CHORUS:
You will eat, bye and bye,
When you’ve learned how to cook and to fry
Chop some wood, ’twill do you good,
And you’ll eat in the sweet bye and bye.
The Preacher And The Slave – Utah Phillips