Joe Hill

from Lightning Swords of Shadows and Justice by Sons of Hanzo

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San Pedro Daily Times (1905) -

"The Industrial Workers of the World will meet at 417112 Beacon Street [Liberty Hill, San Pedro CA USA]. All wage earners are cordially invited to attend and hear good speakers explain the principles and constitutions of the true working man's organization."

lyrics

it's easy for people to speak of free trade
when they don't have to live with the problems it made

working for a starvation wage
you'll never get ahead, barely stay in place

and if you don't think it can happen to you
just wait until you're hungry and look at what you'll do

who wrote the history?
who put it in books?
who dropped the anchor?
and who gets the hook?

get out of your car and onto the street
consider the distance, vote with your feet

it's a new century give a year or two
take a look around see what you can do

you can fill a book with workingmen's tunes
and still feel the boot of the bosses' goons

from the San Pedro docks he hopped the Salt Lake line
made it up to Utah just in time

to be tried and convicted of another man's crime
his life turned into a nursery rhyme

who wrote the history?, etc.

you can say that the earth belongs to all mankind
but you're begging for scraps from the first in line

suckered with stories of the glory of old
and the promise of bounty in the days to unfold

if you grow up to question how it was we got here
they built you see (they say) nothing else is so clear

who wrote the history?, etc.

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from Lightning Swords of Shadows and Justice, released October 23, 2017

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Sons of Hanzo Los Angeles, California

Hard-charging quartet straight from San Pedro CA USA.

Three parts Mike Watt & the Secondmen (Pete Mazich and Jerry Trebotic).

One part, Donzo.

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