Goodbye, Joe Hill

作曲 : Bruce "Utah" Phillips

Good-bye, Joe Hill, we’ve had some good times here.

I wish you could stay around for just another year.

But the battle line keeps movin’, and I know that you can’t stay.

I guess sometimes it just works out that way.

Good-bye, Tom Joad, we’ll meet…. I don’t know where.

We’re a better kind of people for knowin’ you were here.

It was a damn good fight, Tom, but we lost…. And that’s a shame.

I’m glad we stood and fought it all the same.

、Good-bye, Gene Debs, I know just where you’ll be.

“While there’s a man in prison, my soul cannot be free.”

、Well, Gene, you tried to change them, but they beat you in the end.

I’m glad glad that we had you for a friend.

And Ammon, you old rebel, it’s just another round.

Takes more than politicians to keep a rebel down.

There’s one thing I know for certain. I’ll swear by God it’s true.

This bluenose town ain’t seen the end of you.

So long, Joe Hill, so long but not good-bye.

You’re off to teach some grafters how to sizzle and to fry.

But someday, we’re gonna need you Joe. You and all your friends

Will never have to say good-bye again.