Hellraisers Journal: Joe Hill Memorial Edition of Little Red Songbook Published by Cleveland IWW
Then we'll sing one song of the workers' commonwealth,
Full of beauty, full of love and health.
-Joe Hill
Thursday April 6, 1916
Cleveland, Ohio - "Joe Hill Memorial Edition of the I.W.W. Song Book"
This past March, the Ninth Edition of the "Little Red Songbook" was issued by the Cleveland branch of the Industrial Workers of the World, and is dedicated to the memory of our martyred fellow worker and songwriter, Joe Hill. Contained therein are four new songs, composed by FW Hill while he was a class-war prisoner in Salt Lake City. Joe Hill's famous Last Will and his Farewell message can also be found within and stand as a testament to the courage with which the True Blue Rebel Artist departed this earth.
The four new Joe Hill songs of the Ninth Edition are: Workers of the World Awaken, Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay, Don't Take My Papa Away From Me, and The Rebel Girl. Many other long-time favorites of FW Joe Hill can also found.
Two poems of tribute to the rebel songwriter are offered in remembrance: "Joe Hill" by Ralph Chaplin and "November Nineteenth" by John E Nordquist.
Pages from the Ninth Edition of the Little Red Songbook:
The Songs of Joe Hill,
Ninth Edition of the Little Red Songbook
of March 1916
Workers of the World, Awaken
Note: I love this performance, if anyone knows who the performer is, please let me know!
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Ta-Ra-Ra Boom De-Ay
Performed by Lucas Stark
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Don't Take My Papa Away From Me
Sadly, I could find no performance of this song online, but audio file of the tune can be easily downloaded at link below:
http://politicalfolkmusic.org/wordpress/joe-hill-dont-take-my-papa-away-...
The Rebel Girl
Performed by Alyeah Hansen
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SOURCE & IMAGES
Joe Hill Memorial Edition of the I.W.W. Song Book
Songs of the Workers
On The Road in the Jungles and in the Shops
Ninth Edition
Cleveland I. W. W. Publishing Bureau, March, 1916
(-with links to all other pages.)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ASongs_of_the_work...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Songs_of_the_worker...
Source for new songs added in March 1916:
Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs!
-ed by Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, Salvatore Salerno
PM Press, 2016
https://books.google.com/books?id=QaXECwAAQBAJ&vq=ninth+edition&dq=big+r...
IMAGE
Joe Hill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joe_hill002.jpg
See also:
WE NEVER FORGET/ Joe Hill-Songs from the Little Red Songbook, Part Four by JayRaye
http://caucus99percent.com/content/we-never-forget-joe-hill-songs-little...
Joe Hill's Last Will - John McCutcheon
Comments
Bonus song-
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Last Will performed as a poem by Utah Phillips, includes farewel
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Great edition JayRaye!
I love the music. Joe was a very talented man, what better Last Will.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
thx kharma, Joe Hill's Last Will continues to amaze me.
So beautiful in its simplicity yet I find more in it every time I read it.
His ashes are in every state and many other countries, so we never know when they might come passing by as the merry breezes blow.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Wonderful edition, JayRae! So much to listen and learn. The
Long Memory set to music. TY again.
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
Hey Gerrit, always great to see you here at HJ.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
Joe's will
I understand that his wishes were respected. He was cremated and the ashes were divided, to be scattered all over the land.
Life is strong. I'm weak, but Life is strong.
yep, here's a great song about Joe Hill's Ashes
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons