[00:00.000] 作曲 : David Stefan Rovics
[00:03.815]Joel Haglund came from Sweden
[00:05.838]Which was very far from Eden
[00:07.971]By the time he left most of his family died
[00:11.778]His sisters and his mother
[00:13.721]His father and his brothers
[00:15.565]So with one remaining sibling at his side
[00:20.242]He got a notion
[00:21.512]To sail across the ocean
[00:23.427]Where he heard the streets were paved with gold
[00:27.072]Not long after his arrival
[00:29.367]As he toiled for survival
[00:31.131]He realized the bill of goods that he’d been sold
[00:35.320]He got a whole lot wiser
[00:37.200]Became an organizer
[00:39.182]And he organized with artistry and skill
[00:42.807]He spoke up, raised his fist
[00:44.965]Got right on the blacklist
[00:47.044]That’s why he changed his name to Joe Hill
[00:51.139]He heard that it was best
[00:53.011]If he headed to the west
[00:54.907]Where the Industrial Workers of the World
[00:58.887]Were finding the solutions
[01:00.804]For making revolution
[01:02.586]With red songbook and red flag unfurled
[01:06.410]A hundred years ago the bard
[01:08.685]With the union card
[01:10.621]Proved his music was too powerful, too strong
[01:14.660]They couldn’t stand the sound
[01:16.711]They had to take him down
[01:18.537]Lest he organize the working class in song
[01:24.603]Soon as he paid his dues
[01:26.491]He tried hard to light the fuse
[01:28.708]Speaking, singing, writing lyrics and cartoons
[01:32.639]He sent off the whole mess
[01:34.664]To the Wobbly press
[01:36.546]And they sang his songs as they fought the goons
[01:40.701]He joined a singing movement
[01:42.787]That fought for improvement
[01:44.662]By abolishing wage-slavery worldwide
[01:48.592]He sang the Wobbly line
[01:50.481]Beseeching workers to combine
[01:52.249]Learn from Mr Block — the bosses lied
[01:56.066]A hundred years ago the bard
[01:58.414]With the union card
[02:00.392]Proved his music was too powerful, too strong
[02:04.385]They couldn’t stand the sound
[02:06.439]They had to take him down
[02:08.358]Lest he organize the working class in song
[02:30.399]His life would be cut short
[02:32.368]By a kangaroo court
[02:34.582]Eager to determine one man’s fate
[02:38.262]Evidence was circumstantial
[02:40.352]But that’s inconsequential
[02:42.498]When you’ve become an enemy of the state
[02:46.114]They put him up against the wall
[02:48.413]And that was all
[02:50.511]They gunned him down in 1915
[02:53.615]He took all the bullets he could take
[02:56.011]There by the Salt Lake
[02:57.982]For being the best bard they’d ever seen
[03:01.415]A hundred years ago the bard
[03:03.765]With the union card
[03:05.598]Proved his music was too powerful, too strong
[03:09.775]They couldn’t stand the sound
[03:11.817]They had to take him down
[03:13.653]Lest he organize the working class in song
[03:17.421]A hundred years ago the bard
[03:19.968]With the union card
[03:21.678]Proved his music was too powerful, too strong
[03:25.711]They couldn’t stand the sound
[03:27.618]They had to take him down
[03:29.534]Lest he organize the working class in song
[03:33.485]Lest he organize the working class in song