F Fsus F C (open D stringthen back on 2nd fret)Joe Hill come over from Sweden shoresF
Fsus F CLooking for some work to do F C AmAnd the Statue of Liberty waved him by C
(Open D stringplace finger on G st. 2nd fretreturn)As Joe come a sailing through, Jo
e Hill C G7 CAs Joe come a sailing through.Oh his clothes were coarse and his hopes were highAs he headed
for the promised landAnd it took a few weeks on the out-of-work streetsBefore he began to understandBefore he began to under
standAnd Joe got hired by a bowery barsweeping up the saloonAs his rag would sail over the baroom railSounded like he whis
tled on a tuneYou could almost hear him whistling on a tuneAnd Joe rolled on from job to jobFrom the docks to the railroad
lineAnd no matter how hungry the hand that wroteIn his letters he was always doing fineIn his letters he was always doing fi
neOh, the years went by like the sun goin' downslowly turn the pageAnd when Joe looked back at the sweat upon his tracksHe
had nothing to show but his ageHe had nothing to show but his ageSo he headed out for the California shoreThere things wer
e just as badSo he joined the industrial workers of the world'Cause, The union was the only friend he had'Cause, The union w
as the only friend he hadNow the strikes were bloody and the strikes were blackas hard as they were longIn the dark of nigh
t Joe would stay awake and writeIn the morning he would raise them with a songIn the morning he would raise them with a song
And he wrote hi