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Long-haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right;
But when asked how 'bout something to eat
They will answer with voices so sweet: You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

— Joe Hill The Preacher and the Slave (1911)

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If the workers took a notion
They could stop all speeding trains;
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They can tie with mighty chains.

I'll take the shooting. I'm used to that. I've been shot a few times in the past, and I guess I can stand it, again.

There is pow'r, there is pow'r
In a band of workingmen.
When they stand hand in hand,
That's a pow'r, that's a pow'r
That must rule in every land —
One Industrial Union Grand.

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