I know it's a vanity but this poem I wrote seems appropriate Workers’ Rights In the not-so distant past Workers had no rights To achieve them they organised To win them they had to fight From Tolpuddle and Unions And the right to strike Working folk won their rights Against greedy financial might But what they won was a victory In a battle not the war As some seek to re-set the clock To what there was before.
just in case anyone here is interested.. great version of this song sung by an irish ballader called luke kelly .. different approach to the song, but very good all the same. he is one of irelands greatest singers... well worth a listen, promise you wont be sorry...
It's scary that so many people have no idea what unions did for them. Their ignorance is dangerous. To be willing to work for very low wages, no insurance and no protection is pitiful. They do no good for our country, and increase the power of the plantation owners. They are NOT better than the working man; how can we not acknowledge that?
@TheMackinacTraall frank steunenberg was a traitor to the union movement and a corrupt fascist. he was assainated by an agent of the miner's union. a traitor and an unimportant lackluster governor. the rich mine owners put up a statue of this jerk not of the man who was the first state governor, but this jerk on the state capitol grounds he didn't merit this honor.
@chazmcneill Yes. I have watched corporations spit in the face of Democracy all my life. Their media outlets encourage politicians to tear one another to pieces, chant slogans, expose their opponents’ scandals, knowing that regardless of who “wins”, their own structures of greed and power will remain. Always, it is the people who lose.
@chazmcneill I have watched the big transnational corporations spit in the face of Democracy all my life. Their media outlets encourage politicians to tear each other’s parties to pieces,confident in the knowledge that regardless of who “wins”, their own structures of greed and power will remain in place.
@ryan06105 you sexist twit. Dylan based his song on the song "Joe Hill", which begins with the lines "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night", by Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson.
Also there's something called "the folk tradition" if you think Dylan wasn't imitating, copying, rephrasing, or striaght up lifting songs sung by other people then you don't know much about Dylan, or folk music, or much of anything.
Andrew Greeley, sociologist and Catholic priest, maintains that unions have done more to raise the American standard of living than anything else. And today the wealthy and robber barons are attempting to destroy what has made the American dream possible for the nation's workers.
The workers are the union and they are there only guardian, the bosses own the media and have the power. I listen to my fellow workers and despair at there ignorance about where there basic conditions came from, Like the 40 hour week, lunch breaks, holidays, sickpay and so on, the dumbing down process is a simple but affective way of keeping the peasants in there place. We are but putty in there hands. Joe Hills come and Joe Hills Go, but greed and self interest keep marching on.
To understand the importance of unions, we need to understand the plight of the worker during the industrial revolution.Unions provided workers with basic human dignity and protections. Without them, we would not have the social amenities that exist today
This song provides inspiration for us fighting for our livlihood in Wisconsin! Down with Scott Walker and the wealthy Koch brothers who want to destroy the middle class.
Joe Hill IS alive. In fact,he's in Madison Wisconsin right now. I'm sure that he'd like to meet Joan and her old beau, Bobby Dylan.(He's right from our neighborhood.) All is now on the line, Brothers and Sisters.
Joe Hill IS alive. In fact,he's in Madison Wisconsin right now. I'm sure that he'd like to meet Joan and her old beau, Bobby Dylan.(He's right from our neighborhood.) All is now on the line, Brothers and Sisters.
George Carlin pointed out that people only have the "rights" that the people in power allow. No human right is a "given." When workers experience only decent treatment, they are unaware that some past organized activity was responsible for ending bad treatment. We've heard of strikes by commercial sailors and longshoremen in 1934, but we aren't told what they were upset about. What did they gain? Mattresses. No more sailing around the world, sleeping on hay. Who would THINK of giving hay?
This song stopped me in my tracks today. What a pleasure. I remember when she was singing it over 40 years ago. On the topic of unions: imagine all the bad management ideas of all time, heaped onto every "job" on the planet. 18 hour days, no breaks, whipping, work until collapsing, then being dragged away and replaced, no toilets, urinate on yourself, all these tactics used on workers from age 4 to age 38, when they drop dead. When workers have rights, it looks like unions are unnecessary.
I'm sure she'd be embarrassed to read your drivel, but whatever, you carry on listening out for "clear voices" without actually caring about the lyrics/content if that's your thing. The spirit of Joe Hill will live on long after you / me or Joan Baez are gone.
I'm sure she'd be embarrassed to read your drivel, but whatever, you carry on listening out for "clear voices" without actually caring about the lyrics/content if that's your thing. The spirit of Joe Hill will live on long after you / me or Joan Baez
I certainly have my suspicions about the unions, but clearly if they had not struggled for years against capitalist monopoly and government oligarchy, we would still have children pushing coal carts up narrow tunnels 12 hours a day, or working on machinery in some dangerous factory.
Now, if someone would just stop government bailouts of banks, automobile companies, and insurance giants, we could perhaps address the waste and fraud in the rest of government economic policy.
@brunester1 The problem is the government sponsors corporate welfare of all kinds. During the 'industrial revolution', many of these companies once they got to be so big lobbied for laws to protect their sorry asses in the marketplace, hence with an employers market, they were better able to exploit workers. What would work better is if we had more businesses competing for workers. This way, it would behoove management to treat help well as they could go down the street (to p2 pls.)
(p2) work for the competition who does treat its workforce better and put the sweatshop manger out of business or force him to change his ways! Let's also remember that many of the sweatshops likely made deals with the government and with all the immigrants coming to America at the time, they saw an opportunity to make the new settlers work under horrid conditions and tell them that they had to do so or get shipped back! We need to end corporate welfare! (to p3 please)
(p3) We need to make it easier for people to start businesses of their own! It shouldn't take a mountain of red tape to start a business of one's own! The more that wealth is concentrated into the hands of more people, the more people control their own destinies, the better society benefits as a whole. Corporations should not have a monopoly on the work force.
The Union is all the working man really has, the world is becoming increasingly corrupt, and the Union is not immune to human greed, but to have protection on the job is sometimes very needed, and it is nice to have weekends off and 8 hour days, which the Union fought and lost a lot of good men for the benefits the worker has today
@videotimesss1 yes, unions aren`t the good role they use to be. In general I`m anti-union, but Joan`s voice is so clear and beautiful, I posted all of her songs I have.
@Scout4Me1 Hell to that. If my husband and I worked union jobs he wouldn't have lost our healthcare this week due to having his hours cut - and I would have healthcare myself. A union gives the worker RIGHTS to be a human being, not a damned slave. Anybody who doesn't appreciate the union concept does not know what it really means to be a WORKER. Plain and simple.
@SisterRags I`m truly sorry your loses, but doesn`t it mean anything that unions always vote Democrat? They hate Republicans. Plus it`s always union bosses that get the money and to hell for the rest. Teachers unions are the worse. Because of unions, we can`t fire bad teachers, or bad schools. Unions are strongly against school vouchers, which I am for. If we want change for the better, unions stand against it. I wouldn`t count on unions for bringing back prosperity to America.
@Scout4Me1 Well,the Teamsters,did support Nixon,until they got rid of Jimmy Hoffa, who was crooked enough to be a republican. Most of the unions couldn't be bought though,so no, they don't support the original class warriors and lackeys of the Grand Oil Party.You've been brainwashed to hate the teachers because they have one of the few unions with any power left. Enjoy your 40 hour week and decent wages.Once the unions are taken out, the benefits the unions bought for you won't last long.
@Scout4Me1 jesus, have some dignity and take down this song or something, you're defiling a beautiful song with your cretinous anti union crap - " her voice is so clear...." - embarrassing ...
@cantsin I have put up crappier Joan Baez songs before, but her cyrstal clear voice always wins me over. Joan herself has admited she`s recorded some crappy songs. What you say is YOUR attitude not mine.
Thank you for sharing that .... well said... there is much to be thankful for although there is still a pressing need to this day as many still struggle unnecessarily .... MarkJoseph
@videotimesss1 But what about the bureaucracy of the union? That mighty instrument which keeps the workers from self organizing? We must admit that the unions have discredited themselves by largely discrediting themselves in their role of depoliticization of workers struggle....
@videotimesss1 But its been around a century since we got the 'right' to 'only' work 8 hours a day. Ever read the glorious 'Right to Be Lazy' by Paul Lafargue? He said 4 hours a day was more than enough work to keep the capitalist scum happy!
If it wasn't for unions you'd be working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for very little money. Don't knock unions, they have helped the working man for the last 100 years.
@atfatw Fuck you and your ignorant opinion. "THE UNIONS" is what made this country great and will continue to do so, whether you appreciate it or not.
If it wasn't for unions you'd be working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for very little money. Don't knock unions, they have helped the working man for the last 100 years.
unions are wimp sissies that are cowardly putzes too that are to lazy to defend the people. they are always giving up workers gains and prove to the whole world that they are evil sweetheart whores for evil big business and are usually mobbed up
Thank you for posting, this is a wonderful song, I love it. She sung it in Oslo, when I was there to see her. My first show seeing her, and I loved every second of it!
GoweExile 1 week ago
Sorry that's a mess
perhaps you guys can check it out on my channel
GoweExile 1 week ago
just in case anyone here is interested.. great version of this song sung by an irish ballader called luke kelly .. different approach to the song, but very good all the same. he is one of irelands greatest singers... well worth a listen, promise you wont be sorry...
fradtan 1 week ago
Aaah, sing it like no one else can, dear Joan! You're my heroine forever!
ionafromjohnmarshall 1 month ago
I have'nt heard this songs for years, thanks for sharing......
Philoaussie08 1 month ago
It's scary that so many people have no idea what unions did for them. Their ignorance is dangerous. To be willing to work for very low wages, no insurance and no protection is pitiful. They do no good for our country, and increase the power of the plantation owners. They are NOT better than the working man; how can we not acknowledge that?
mallducklard 1 month ago
@mallducklard what SPECIFICALLY should the people do?
atfatw 1 month ago
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Singing and music is just wonderful, great.
Wonderful interpretation of this song, fabulous.
Zebbogon 2 months ago
Joan Baez is an American hero
nvize1 2 months ago
This song just gives me the chills. Incredible.
echadmeir 2 months ago 2
beutifull stuff
rmc19490 2 months ago
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jeffleavitt 2 months ago
the miner's union blew up a traitor governor steunenberg and the copper bosses built a statue to this fool on the grounds of the idaho state senate
atfatw 3 months ago
@atfatw What in Hell are you talking about?
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@TheMackinacTraall frank steunenberg was a traitor to the union movement and a corrupt fascist. he was assainated by an agent of the miner's union. a traitor and an unimportant lackluster governor. the rich mine owners put up a statue of this jerk not of the man who was the first state governor, but this jerk on the state capitol grounds he didn't merit this honor.
atfatw 1 month ago
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Joe Hill was a murderer. He murdered my Great Grandfather while my grandfather watched.
bigade691 4 months ago
The Corporations Are The Government ?
chazmcneill 5 months ago
@chazmcneill Yes. I have watched corporations spit in the face of Democracy all my life. Their media outlets encourage politicians to tear one another to pieces, chant slogans, expose their opponents’ scandals, knowing that regardless of who “wins”, their own structures of greed and power will remain. Always, it is the people who lose.
hellesterne 2 weeks ago
@hellesterne Couldn't have said it better myself.
bonnmot 1 week ago
@chazmcneill I have watched the big transnational corporations spit in the face of Democracy all my life. Their media outlets encourage politicians to tear each other’s parties to pieces,confident in the knowledge that regardless of who “wins”, their own structures of greed and power will remain in place.
hellesterne 2 weeks ago
Government by the corporations for the Corporations ? ( best Government money can buy : ) ?
chazmcneill 5 months ago
DON'T MOUM ORGANIZE!! FFS!!
ryskpompa 5 months ago
WTF? Borrowing from Dylan's I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine? Did she do anything without Dylan's help?
ryan06105 5 months ago
@ryan06105 you sexist twit. Dylan based his song on the song "Joe Hill", which begins with the lines "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night", by Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson.
Also there's something called "the folk tradition" if you think Dylan wasn't imitating, copying, rephrasing, or striaght up lifting songs sung by other people then you don't know much about Dylan, or folk music, or much of anything.
djripley 5 months ago
@rya
n06105 your so wrong said Mr. Robeson !!! well i said
nanapam100 5 months ago
@ryan06105 hahahahaha.....deffo one of the more stupid things I ever read on YT, and that's saying something
cantsin 5 months ago
Unions are the capitalism of the proletariat. Needed for defense, yet part of the system.
kitabwalli 6 months ago
Singing and music is just wonderful, great.
Zebbogon 6 months ago
A la vittoria siempre! Keep the faith
dmg83 6 months ago
We are but a union. Separateness is a painful illusion that occurs when we lose sight of our core nature.
whagerbaumer 6 months ago
Andrew Greeley, sociologist and Catholic priest, maintains that unions have done more to raise the American standard of living than anything else. And today the wealthy and robber barons are attempting to destroy what has made the American dream possible for the nation's workers.
God bless American unions and unions everywhere.
bilmar1966 8 months ago 6
it will take blood in the streets before the union gets back to where it once was--it has to ever 100 years or so
iceaxe56 8 months ago 5
Union busting governors are anti-American.
Tigermoon1950 9 months ago 13
1 scab.
fatheroflatus 10 months ago
The workers are the union and they are there only guardian, the bosses own the media and have the power. I listen to my fellow workers and despair at there ignorance about where there basic conditions came from, Like the 40 hour week, lunch breaks, holidays, sickpay and so on, the dumbing down process is a simple but affective way of keeping the peasants in there place. We are but putty in there hands. Joe Hills come and Joe Hills Go, but greed and self interest keep marching on.
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looking forward to the concert in Oslo tomorrow;) It will be my first time seeing her;) Hoping for to hear Joe Hill, my favorite song;)!!!
TheMajinkaja 10 months ago
looking forward to the concert in Oslo tomorrow;) It will be my first time seeing her;) Hoping for to hear Joe Hill, my favorite song;)!!!
TheMajinkaja 10 months ago
Joan is another of our National Treasures...... Politics be damned! Love ya Joanie.
RenickRanger 10 months ago
Without unions you cannot keep your hard won rights
MAshRedTerry 11 months ago 10
To understand the importance of unions, we need to understand the plight of the worker during the industrial revolution.Unions provided workers with basic human dignity and protections. Without them, we would not have the social amenities that exist today
jayalalitadd 11 months ago 4
This song provides inspiration for us fighting for our livlihood in Wisconsin! Down with Scott Walker and the wealthy Koch brothers who want to destroy the middle class.
snowleopard2902 1 year ago 6
Wonderful. The Paul Robeson version on YouTube is not to be missed, either!
MiserableOldFart 1 year ago
WISCONSIN TEACHERS..........Joe Hill Is With YOU!!
skysoxwiz 1 year ago 6
Fight on Wisconsin ! The Nation Workers are behind you!
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Joe Hill IS alive. In fact,he's in Madison Wisconsin right now. I'm sure that he'd like to meet Joan and her old beau, Bobby Dylan.(He's right from our neighborhood.) All is now on the line, Brothers and Sisters.
PinkSparkle13 1 year ago
Joe Hill IS alive. In fact,he's in Madison Wisconsin right now. I'm sure that he'd like to meet Joan and her old beau, Bobby Dylan.(He's right from our neighborhood.) All is now on the line, Brothers and Sisters.
PinkSparkle13 1 year ago 5
Joe hill knew that the working man would only ever have the rights that he needed if he took them.
Too many today have either never learnt that or worse, forgotten it.
Listen to that other great singer and socialist Paul Robeson with his version.
grannys14 1 year ago 2
George Carlin pointed out that people only have the "rights" that the people in power allow. No human right is a "given." When workers experience only decent treatment, they are unaware that some past organized activity was responsible for ending bad treatment. We've heard of strikes by commercial sailors and longshoremen in 1934, but we aren't told what they were upset about. What did they gain? Mattresses. No more sailing around the world, sleeping on hay. Who would THINK of giving hay?
ghost1946 1 year ago 5
This song stopped me in my tracks today. What a pleasure. I remember when she was singing it over 40 years ago. On the topic of unions: imagine all the bad management ideas of all time, heaped onto every "job" on the planet. 18 hour days, no breaks, whipping, work until collapsing, then being dragged away and replaced, no toilets, urinate on yourself, all these tactics used on workers from age 4 to age 38, when they drop dead. When workers have rights, it looks like unions are unnecessary.
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I'm sure she'd be embarrassed to read your drivel, but whatever, you carry on listening out for "clear voices" without actually caring about the lyrics/content if that's your thing. The spirit of Joe Hill will live on long after you / me or Joan Baez are gone.
cantsin 1 year ago
I'm sure she'd be embarrassed to read your drivel, but whatever, you carry on listening out for "clear voices" without actually caring about the lyrics/content if that's your thing. The spirit of Joe Hill will live on long after you / me or Joan Baez
cantsin 1 year ago 2
...we will allways remeber Joe Hill and Joan Baez ♥
Arentino 1 year ago
Don´t grieve folks! Organize!!
karlvonl1 1 year ago 3
I certainly have my suspicions about the unions, but clearly if they had not struggled for years against capitalist monopoly and government oligarchy, we would still have children pushing coal carts up narrow tunnels 12 hours a day, or working on machinery in some dangerous factory.
Now, if someone would just stop government bailouts of banks, automobile companies, and insurance giants, we could perhaps address the waste and fraud in the rest of government economic policy.
brunester1 1 year ago 5
@brunester1 The problem is the government sponsors corporate welfare of all kinds. During the 'industrial revolution', many of these companies once they got to be so big lobbied for laws to protect their sorry asses in the marketplace, hence with an employers market, they were better able to exploit workers. What would work better is if we had more businesses competing for workers. This way, it would behoove management to treat help well as they could go down the street (to p2 pls.)
thespeez 1 month ago
(p2) work for the competition who does treat its workforce better and put the sweatshop manger out of business or force him to change his ways! Let's also remember that many of the sweatshops likely made deals with the government and with all the immigrants coming to America at the time, they saw an opportunity to make the new settlers work under horrid conditions and tell them that they had to do so or get shipped back! We need to end corporate welfare! (to p3 please)
thespeez 1 month ago
(p3) We need to make it easier for people to start businesses of their own! It shouldn't take a mountain of red tape to start a business of one's own! The more that wealth is concentrated into the hands of more people, the more people control their own destinies, the better society benefits as a whole. Corporations should not have a monopoly on the work force.
thespeez 1 month ago
Swedish tradional..
kallejesus 1 year ago
solidarity forever, for the union makes us strong..
MrCurpy 1 year ago 3
The Union is all the working man really has, the world is becoming increasingly corrupt, and the Union is not immune to human greed, but to have protection on the job is sometimes very needed, and it is nice to have weekends off and 8 hour days, which the Union fought and lost a lot of good men for the benefits the worker has today
videotimesss1 1 year ago 68
@videotimesss1 yes, unions aren`t the good role they use to be. In general I`m anti-union, but Joan`s voice is so clear and beautiful, I posted all of her songs I have.
Scout4Me1 1 year ago
@Scout4Me1 Hell to that. If my husband and I worked union jobs he wouldn't have lost our healthcare this week due to having his hours cut - and I would have healthcare myself. A union gives the worker RIGHTS to be a human being, not a damned slave. Anybody who doesn't appreciate the union concept does not know what it really means to be a WORKER. Plain and simple.
SisterRags 1 year ago 6
@SisterRags I`m truly sorry your loses, but doesn`t it mean anything that unions always vote Democrat? They hate Republicans. Plus it`s always union bosses that get the money and to hell for the rest. Teachers unions are the worse. Because of unions, we can`t fire bad teachers, or bad schools. Unions are strongly against school vouchers, which I am for. If we want change for the better, unions stand against it. I wouldn`t count on unions for bringing back prosperity to America.
Scout4Me1 1 year ago
@Scout4Me1 Well,the Teamsters,did support Nixon,until they got rid of Jimmy Hoffa, who was crooked enough to be a republican. Most of the unions couldn't be bought though,so no, they don't support the original class warriors and lackeys of the Grand Oil Party.You've been brainwashed to hate the teachers because they have one of the few unions with any power left. Enjoy your 40 hour week and decent wages.Once the unions are taken out, the benefits the unions bought for you won't last long.
PetroniusI 1 year ago 3
@PetroniusI If you can stand to listen to the truth, unions nowadays are demanding less work and more money.
Scout4Me1 1 year ago
@Scout4Me1 jesus, have some dignity and take down this song or something, you're defiling a beautiful song with your cretinous anti union crap - " her voice is so clear...." - embarrassing ...
cantsin 1 year ago
@cantsin I have put up crappier Joan Baez songs before, but her cyrstal clear voice always wins me over. Joan herself has admited she`s recorded some crappy songs. What you say is YOUR attitude not mine.
Scout4Me1 1 year ago
@videotimesss1 Yes, we certainly need this song in Wisconsin right now, after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre our governor pulled.
Huntgoddessfishery 1 year ago 3
@videotimesss1 indeed agreed, though alot of good WOmen,keep figthing with them. Women fight on average uch more then men.
PatBenson 1 year ago
@videotimesss1 Not just (nice)! Look up Mother Jones and the Coal mining strike of 1901/1902!
ARP7777777 10 months ago
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Sparki3e 10 months ago
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Thank you for sharing that .... well said... there is much to be thankful for although there is still a pressing need to this day as many still struggle unnecessarily .... MarkJoseph
Sparki3e 10 months ago
@videotimesss1 But what about the bureaucracy of the union? That mighty instrument which keeps the workers from self organizing? We must admit that the unions have discredited themselves by largely discrediting themselves in their role of depoliticization of workers struggle....
Gebublard 6 months ago
@Gebublard Joe Hill was an IWW unionist - that is an anti-buereaucratic union. that's the point.
djripley 5 months ago
@videotimesss1 But its been around a century since we got the 'right' to 'only' work 8 hours a day. Ever read the glorious 'Right to Be Lazy' by Paul Lafargue? He said 4 hours a day was more than enough work to keep the capitalist scum happy!
gefriolsaeme 3 weeks ago
joan baez nude! definately LOL!
atfatw 1 year ago
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@atfatw
If it wasn't for unions you'd be working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for very little money. Don't knock unions, they have helped the working man for the last 100 years.
tony999Melb 1 year ago
BEST EVER , REGARDS FROM ivar
ifylling 1 year ago
@atfatw Fuck you and your ignorant opinion. "THE UNIONS" is what made this country great and will continue to do so, whether you appreciate it or not.
StephanieImmel1122 1 year ago 4
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the unions are patheteic, miserable, useless, they are one of the reasons that America is so nasty
atfatw 1 year ago
@atfatw Yes, Joan and I have parted ways on this. I posted it because "Joe Hill"
is one of her trademark songs that she sang when her voice was still in her prime.
Scout4Me1 1 year ago
@atfatw
If it wasn't for unions you'd be working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for very little money. Don't knock unions, they have helped the working man for the last 100 years.
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@tony999Melb
unions are wimp sissies that are cowardly putzes too that are to lazy to defend the people. they are always giving up workers gains and prove to the whole world that they are evil sweetheart whores for evil big business and are usually mobbed up
atfatw 1 year ago
This is a Union song.
dakkonsol 1 year ago
Incredible. Thank God we have people like Joan who keep the justice system alive. We cannot forget!
aalaurie 1 year ago
I first heard her sing this song 40 years ago. It is still fresh, still a great song by a
great singer.
gwmacdonald 1 year ago
NICE
JONtwoandahalf 1 year ago
I still like this one.
boken168 1 year ago
This is the best "Joe Hill" song, from the movie call "Joe Hill " about 38 years ago. Many thanks to Scout4me1,
boken168 1 year ago 4
This is the best of "Joe Hill " song, Thanks Scout4me1
boken168 1 year ago 3
it's one of JOAN BAEZ 's best song, thank you very much!
MusicStreamInTheWind 2 years ago 2
Thank you for posting, this is a wonderful song, I love it. She sung it in Oslo, when I was there to see her. My first show seeing her, and I loved every second of it!
ca3neolsen 2 years ago 19
Yes, Joan is a wonderful person and sensitive to the plight of others. Take care.
Scout4Me1 2 years ago 2