Just left a strike protest rally based in Liverpool but with 500 000 British workers out on strike nationally. The rally finished with the final speaker singing this .... sent shivers down my spine and filled my eyes till brimming 😍🥺😍🥺
Joe was Swedish! Joe was American! Can't he be both and ultimately more than both? The struggle of the working class is global. Workers of the world, unite!
I´m born and raised in the same Swedish town as Joe Hill. At junior high I had a teacher from USA who told me that she used to sing this song as a child, that Joe Hill meant something people back home. Makes me glad.
I'd like to dedicate this to all the workers in the US who go on strike in the name of worker safety today. From a girl who shares a hometown with Joe Hill - Joe Hill is at your side, and for what it's worth, so am I. Don't mourn - organize.
Well done Bruce Springsteen....just wish American's would google Joe Hill who is NOT in our history books. And we have 8 hour working days and weekends free from work if we choose because of Joe Hill. Ah...the things the younger generations is missing out on. Kudo's to Bruce Springsteen bringing this old song back to life....Martha
***** What an interesting comment you have made. Thank you for sharing that information, even if it is disheartening. Sad that he is not included in our history teachings in the U.S. and Sweden. And he did so MUCH. God Bless. Thank you again for the information. Martha
100 years on… In memory of Fellow Worker Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, aka 'Joe Hill' (1879-1915). Brave, beautiful, talented - and innocent. Judicially murdered by the State of Utah, 19 November 1915.
Just come across this great piece of history, my dad’s favorite song, he liked listening to Bruce years ago thru me this one would have got his seal of approval. Joe hill is still alive in London.
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, Alive as you or me Says I, "But Joe, you're ten years dead," "I never died," says he. "I never died," says he. "In Salt Lake, Joe," says I to him, Him standing by my bed, "They framed you on a murder charge," Says Joe, "But I ain't dead," Says Joe, "But I ain't dead." "The copper bosses killed you, Joe, They shot you, Joe," says I. "Takes more than guns to kill a man," Says Joe, "I didn't die," Says Joe, "I didn't die." And standing there as big as life And smiling with his eyes Says Joe, "What they forgot to kill Went on to organize, Went on to organize." "Joe Hill ain't dead," he says to me, "Joe Hill ain't never died. Where working men are out on strike Joe Hill is at their side, Joe Hill is at their side." From San Diego up to Maine, In every mine and mill - Where working men defend their rights It's there you'll find Joe Hill. It's there you'll find Joe Hill. I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night, Alive as you or me Says I, "But Joe, you're ten years dead", "I never died," says he. "I never died," says he.
Very sad the U S A. Has Lost it way and now all The good that Joe hill And the people like him Fought and died for are Gone people now voted For a con man Trump Who would not give a Worker and glass of water Now has the country split Fighting each other while He is counting the money
One of your questions (Hayes) is one, among 9 others about Joe Hill that I love to ask at pub quizzes in Ireland; we all love Luke Kelly's version. But invariably we love "our" rendition of some song about a man whose real name most people down even know. "Robinson" will be question 11 from now on! Thank you!
Great song that is one groovy cat. Joe Hill needs to be taught in schools. Springstein and Paul Robeson are the BEST versions of this song. Those 69 people who didn't like this song MUST be SCABS!
His most famous songs include "The Preacher and the Slave" (in which he coined the phrase "pie in the sky"),[4] "The Tramp", "There Is Power in a Union", "The Rebel Girl", and "Casey Jones-the Union Scab", which express the harsh and combative life of itinerant workers, and call for workers to organize their efforts to improve working conditions.[5] Source: Wikipedia.
He is the best!!! Love him...I'm a jersey girl thru and thru and his sounds just touch a cord with me!!!!! I've seen him from the stoned pony to filling stations in jersey for a 6 note gig in jersey. Thunder road and jersey girl are my face...however I love american skin..rock on Bruce...
+Alan Moroney Not a Swede - as he said himself, a world citizen. And I say this as someone from Sweden. He isn't ours to claim as a Swede, he is ours to claim as a worker, as a fighter for workers rights, internationally.
Wouldn't Bruce Springsteen on and overseeing the soundtrack for a Joe Hill biopic be amazing? Literally I "had a dream" last night about a hymn learned in childhood that led me to google and learn that it had been inspired by a Joe Hill song. So down the rabbit hole to learn his life has seemingly never been put to mainstream film. If it were, that's a movie that could inspire us in such weirdly ahistorical media-manipulated times as these. (Fan cast: Austin Butler as Joe, Flo Pugh as Hilda, Snoop Dog in a role TBW ...)
My great uncle was in The Utah State Prison at the same time as Joe Hill. Ironically, I met one of Joe Hill's Swedish descendants on a flight from Helsinki to Gothenburg,
+Θάνος Μπλάκφλαγκ How can you have libertarianism with a working class and communism? Communist governments are control freaks and the working class would have nowhere to work in a libertarian anarchy. In a Libertarian Anarchy, a survival of the fittest would prevail and one would end up with another master/slave social relationship.
Glenn Moore sorry but you know shit about politics. Other thing is liberalism and neoliberalism and other thing is libertarian communism. Communism is the classless and stateless society. There are two ways to reach this society. Either with Marxism Leninism(socialism and dictatorship of the proletariat) or with anarchism(libertarian communism) that means after revolution we destroy the state immediately. This condition with federation will be communism. The thing that you are telling to me is socialism not communism. Please read a book.
+Glenn Moore As already pointed out, you don't know what communism means. Both anarchists (the old school kind) and Marxists have communism as a goal: where there is no state, instead there is a free association of producers, with no political repression, because there are no economic classes whose economic & political interests can be oppressed (which is what we think the function of a state is, rather than simply being an organization of society). The means of producton are owned by all of society, instead of property owners living on the products of the workers' labor. The economy is planned; producing based on need instead of profit. (which actually makes it possible to live 8 billion humans on a planet, because the economy wouldn't require ) As technology advances and production becomes more efficient, we simply work shorter hours instead of making some unemployed. We work according to ability, and the product of our labor is distributed depending on need. Inventions can be implemented regardless of their ability to generate profit for CEO's (an example being wireless chargers, because the electricity companies can't charge you when they can't measure how much electricity you used).
Lullu Edge Socialism can be good, as long as there aren´t too many people in the system. People are people, and people are individuals with independent thoughts and independent preferences. Too many independent bodies in a socialist system, and that system will implode. Sad but true.:(
ArgaAnders That's why it works best at the level of the Kibbutz, or worker's co-op, much larger, and they become unworkable. However, to be successful, they depend on the indulgence of a Democratic state, sympathetic to, or at least tolerant of the worker's struggle. Don't believe me? Try starting a Kibbutz in "Communist" China. It's so weird, China is fascist, and North Korea is a monarchy, but my TV tells me they're Communist. Not to worry tho'; their TV's tell them the same thing... Oops, Borgen's on... Gotta go... :)
Reminds me a bit of me. I’m a miner and have died twice and brought back to life. Bled out and had total transfusion and a heavy drug overdose and won’t backdown
The history of Joe Hill, the struggle for workers rights, and progressive change was never taught to me ... in public school. Texas school boards determine which historic narrative is presented in our history books. I would be curious to know if the history book editions that I used in public school in the 60's were ever stored within the Dallas School Book Depository building on Elm Street overlooking Daily Plaza. Oswald didn't do it. Neither did James Earl Ray nor Sirhan Sirhan.
for the workingman, the journeyman, who walks through factory gates in the early morning rain, and out them onto the dark night, to keep his head above water and keep his family safe, no race, no colour, just a man
I'm italian but i'don't forget the real american heroes: Joe Hill, Gene Debs, the IWW and many others. Long Live socialism!
Swedish heroes.
Joe Hill was a Swede.
Solidarity Forever! The Union Makes Us Strong!
Long Live Joe Hill! Long Live the Industrial Workers of the World!
Amen Comrade! Viva Socialismo
Long live ANARCHIST socialism
Social anarchy for the win y'all
I came all the way from Sweden to Tampa, to see Bruce open with a song about a Swede.
great!
Good on ya mate xx
Good on ya
Does Bruce know
Wow 🥰
Just left a strike protest rally based in Liverpool but with 500 000 British workers out on strike nationally. The rally finished with the final speaker singing this .... sent shivers down my spine and filled my eyes till brimming 😍🥺😍🥺
Joe was Swedish! Joe was American! Can't he be both and ultimately more than both? The struggle of the working class is global. Workers of the world, unite!
Amen comrade
Absolutely. Born Joel Hägglund, known as Joe Hillström in the United States. I’m also both, and I feel he is universal.
Yes comrade. beautifully put.
And beyond that is global humanism - bonds of broad equity and deep human rights for all and forever!
@@Mark-tl1yp lollll this liberal garbage, I could hear the same abstract idealist nonsense from Joe biden
I´m born and raised in the same Swedish town as Joe Hill. At junior high I had a teacher from USA who told me that she used to sing this song as a child, that Joe Hill meant something people back home. Makes me glad.
I'd like to dedicate this to all the workers in the US who go on strike in the name of worker safety today. From a girl who shares a hometown with Joe Hill - Joe Hill is at your side, and for what it's worth, so am I. Don't mourn - organize.
Powerful!
Thanks comrade! We're still here!!!
Tack Elisabet, många år senare och fortfarande samma budskap!
@@nathansells3772 The blood that runs thtough my veins is just as red as yours , So we are reds,
@@MrWhiteamin ciao Jan! Come stai? 🙋♀️😍😘💕🎶
Bruce sings Joe Hill on the 1st of May. It just gets better and better.
Greetings from Dublin, Ireland. 1 our legendary folk singers, the late Luke Kelly, sang a fabulous version of this.
That is are really fabulous version. I think that was the first version I heard.
Try the Paul Robeson version ❤️
Well done Bruce Springsteen....just wish American's would google Joe Hill who is NOT in our history books. And we have 8 hour working days and weekends free from work if we choose because of Joe Hill. Ah...the things the younger generations is missing out on. Kudo's to Bruce Springsteen bringing this old song back to life....Martha
***** What an interesting comment you have made. Thank you for sharing that information, even if it is disheartening. Sad that he is not included in our history teachings in the U.S. and Sweden. And he did so MUCH. God Bless. Thank you again for the information. Martha
+ILovesRobyn Strange and sad but true. We could use a little of his spirit on both sides of the pond, I think. Let's fan the flames!
This old song never died either... :)
There is however a Joe Hill Museum in his town of birth. facebook.com/pg/Joe-Hill-Museum-G%C3%A4vle-187445354637471/posts/
I'm 24 and I remember Joe Hill and the IWW!
the dream never dies, brothers and sisters - have the courage to live it and take back our world!
The story of Joel Emmanuel Hägglund aka Joe Hill is of great importance to the working man & woman even today.
Unite & fight!
The man who never died - long live Joe!
Any version of 'Joe Hill' is good but the Paul Robeson version is absolute magic.
*gets out the handkerchief*
I don't think so. Joan Baez performance in Woodstock is thrilling.
Agree with you - Paul Robeson is fabulous. I love a bit of bass-baritone though :)
100 years on…
In memory of Fellow Worker Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, aka 'Joe Hill' (1879-1915). Brave, beautiful, talented - and innocent. Judicially murdered by the State of Utah, 19 November 1915.
Just come across this great piece of history, my dad’s favorite song, he liked listening to Bruce years ago thru me this one would have got his seal of approval. Joe hill is still alive in London.
I first heard this song in 1969 when played in Woodstock. It’s filled with nostalgia.
❤️Beautiful song! Fantastic performance! Thank you for sharing!❤️
This is the song I’ll have at my funeral (but the Paul Robeson version). Up the workers of the world ✊
The IWW is coming back because we need it more than ever, and this time we'll win.
As the old song goes "and we'll fill our vacant ranks of our brothers gone before..."
We never grieve!
Joe Hill alive and well in Scotland. Always will be
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you or me
Says I, "But Joe, you're ten years dead,"
"I never died," says he.
"I never died," says he.
"In Salt Lake, Joe," says I to him,
Him standing by my bed,
"They framed you on a murder charge,"
Says Joe, "But I ain't dead,"
Says Joe, "But I ain't dead."
"The copper bosses killed you, Joe,
They shot you, Joe," says I.
"Takes more than guns to kill a man,"
Says Joe, "I didn't die,"
Says Joe, "I didn't die."
And standing there as big as life
And smiling with his eyes
Says Joe, "What they forgot to kill
Went on to organize,
Went on to organize."
"Joe Hill ain't dead," he says to me,
"Joe Hill ain't never died.
Where working men are out on strike
Joe Hill is at their side,
Joe Hill is at their side."
From San Diego up to Maine,
In every mine and mill -
Where working men defend their rights
It's there you'll find Joe Hill.
It's there you'll find Joe Hill.
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you or me
Says I, "But Joe, you're ten years dead",
"I never died," says he.
"I never died," says he.
Joe Hill's motive wasn't against something -- he organized FOR living wages for laborers, and for decent life for the poor.
That's a point that needs to be pointed out. Thanks
Very sad the U S A. Has
Lost it way and now all
The good that Joe hill
And the people like him
Fought and died for are
Gone people now voted
For a con man Trump
Who would not give a
Worker and glass of water
Now has the country split
Fighting each other while
He is counting the money
Now if Bruce could just start singing some of Joe's songs.
+Mike Ballard Yes! He channels something of the Hill and Guthrie spirit in 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' and 'Youngstown'.
Absolutely fantastic
The BOSS can do EVERY song great
This man is a true hero
My first show and the first song I saw him do. I knew it was going to be a magical night. Thanks for posting.
Thank you Bruce, for once I am proud of a fellow swede! This is so needed today.
A song is impossible to kill...
+Micael Håkans ..they wish :))
So is an idea
Power to the People!
I wish he would come here to Salt Lake and sing about Joe Hill. So those "Copper Bosses" can here him loud and clear!
Magnifique, superbe et magique !! Un énorme grand bravo !!!
Heartbreaking! Never listened to much Springsteen but this is too good.
Let us not forget the writers of this song: Alfred Hayes lyrics, and Earl Robinson music.
One of your questions (Hayes) is one, among 9 others about Joe Hill that I love to ask at pub quizzes in Ireland; we all love Luke Kelly's version. But invariably we love "our" rendition of some song about a man whose real name most people down even know. "Robinson" will be question 11 from now on! Thank you!
Thanks for the information
Beautiful! 💕 He's still remembered.
There's power in the union, there'd power in the land, there's power in the hands of the workers
Great song that is one groovy cat. Joe Hill needs to be taught in schools. Springstein and Paul Robeson are the BEST versions of this song. Those 69 people who didn't like this song MUST be SCABS!
Need to listen to Luke Kelly and Joan Biaz - all great.
@@MonaLisa-lu8zi Joan Baez yes. Luke Kelly not so much (Grump cat emoji NO)
Una stupenda interpretazione !! Cime sempre Bruce ci commuove!!!😕😕😍😍😍😘😘😘🎸🎷🎶💎🌟🗽🌲⛄
We miss you Joe Hill!
Thank you Bruce, this is so needed today. 4:19
PS....this is where the phrase "pie in the sky" came from.....just one tidbit of beauty and truth concerning Joe Hill. Martha
+MattShizzle Thank you for the information!!!!
His most famous songs include "The Preacher and the Slave" (in which he coined the phrase "pie in the sky"),[4] "The Tramp", "There Is Power in a Union", "The Rebel Girl", and "Casey Jones-the Union Scab", which express the harsh and combative life of itinerant workers, and call for workers to organize their efforts to improve working conditions.[5]
Source: Wikipedia.
He is the best!!! Love him...I'm a jersey girl thru and thru and his sounds just touch a cord with me!!!!! I've seen him from the stoned pony to filling stations in jersey for a 6 note gig in jersey. Thunder road and jersey girl are my face...however I love american skin..rock on Bruce...
Absolutly Joe.Hil. A real.hero.from close to.Gavle..RAa
Joel Hägglund was born and grew up in my hometown of Gävle, Sweden, where his family home has been turned into a museum.
Yes, I have been there and I has also performed there at Joe Hill-gården.
Such a great song. Just bought the live Tampa archive release just for this.
Love you Bruce!
We want you in SWEDEN soon!!!!
And he needs to sing this song - about a great Swede!
+Alan Moroney Not a Swede - as he said himself, a world citizen. And I say this as someone from Sweden. He isn't ours to claim as a Swede, he is ours to claim as a worker, as a fighter for workers rights, internationally.
Stunning! Great performance!
Joe Hill=Joel Emmanuel Hägglund från Gävle. And YES! We REALLY need You back in Sweden. Nice shirt by the way :)
Grazie boss,grazie!!!magico...grande...assolutamente unico
Ascolto spesso questa canzone...e devo dire che ogni volta e un emozione nuova....grazie Bruce!Dio ti benedica!😊😍😘🎶🎸🎶💘💓💝💔💯💋
Wouldn't Bruce Springsteen on and overseeing the soundtrack for a Joe Hill biopic be amazing? Literally I "had a dream" last night about a hymn learned in childhood that led me to google and learn that it had been inspired by a Joe Hill song. So down the rabbit hole to learn his life has seemingly never been put to mainstream film. If it were, that's a movie that could inspire us in such weirdly ahistorical media-manipulated times as these. (Fan cast: Austin Butler as Joe, Flo Pugh as Hilda, Snoop Dog in a role TBW ...)
Brilhant 💎💎💎 Love 💘 Bruce Springsteen 💘🎤🎸🎷🎹🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼
Brilliant song by Bruce Springsteen about fighting for ours rights and letting us know stand up and fight for our rights meaning Power to the People
Beautiful
The Boss, singing about a guy who organized against bosses!
John Kalwaic Good one!!
Yeah but he absolutely hates that nickname
He's the only boss we listen to
I forget where I first saw it but "Springsteen is the only man the working class will call Boss"
😂💁🏽♂️
A poor boy from Sweden. He never saw this happening. Singing about him. Wonderful
My great uncle was in The Utah State Prison at the same time as Joe Hill. Ironically, I met one of Joe Hill's Swedish descendants on a flight from Helsinki to Gothenburg,
Me encanta, lo amo
Thank Bruce happy biirthday you' the best
Good on ya Bruce!!!!!!!!!! Dam right he didn´t die. Apart from that a local train here in Sweden also bears his name.
Thank you, Bruce!
This song almost always makes me cry
Rest in Power, Joe - you never died.
springsteen keeping joe hill alive forever ❤️
Long live social revolution. Long live working class. Long live libertarian communism and anarchy.
+Θάνος Μπλάκφλαγκ How can you have libertarianism with a working class and communism? Communist governments are control freaks and the working class would have nowhere to work in a libertarian anarchy. In a Libertarian Anarchy, a survival of the fittest would prevail and one would end up with another master/slave social relationship.
Glenn Moore sorry but you know shit about politics. Other thing is liberalism and neoliberalism and other thing is libertarian communism. Communism is the classless and stateless society. There are two ways to reach this society. Either with Marxism Leninism(socialism and dictatorship of the proletariat) or with anarchism(libertarian communism) that means after revolution we destroy the state immediately. This condition with federation will be communism. The thing that you are telling to me is socialism not communism. Please read a book.
+Glenn Moore As already pointed out, you don't know what communism means. Both anarchists (the old school kind) and Marxists have communism as a goal: where there is no state, instead there is a free association of producers, with no political repression, because there are no economic classes whose economic & political interests can be oppressed (which is what we think the function of a state is, rather than simply being an organization of society).
The means of producton are owned by all of society, instead of property owners living on the products of the workers' labor. The economy is planned; producing based on need instead of profit. (which actually makes it possible to live 8 billion humans on a planet, because the economy wouldn't require )
As technology advances and production becomes more efficient, we simply work shorter hours instead of making some unemployed.
We work according to ability, and the product of our labor is distributed depending on need.
Inventions can be implemented regardless of their ability to generate profit for CEO's (an example being wireless chargers, because the electricity companies can't charge you when they can't measure how much electricity you used).
+Θάνος Μπλάκφλαγκ "that means after revolution we destroy the state immediately" and order will be maintained by the honor code.
Questa canzone e molto toccante!!!😢😄😇😍😘🎸💎🎶🌲⛄💫🌟
Magical !!!!
Respect from the people's socialist republic of Liverpool YNWA .
Well said comrade EFC
Sung with such passion and understanding
OH vilket glädjeskutt för själen nu lever jag vidare
Great version.
The most powerful, moving version of this song ever recorded. From Bruce's heart.........
LOVE IT with the 12-string guitar.
Its sad this isnt on spotify its up there with robesons as one of the greatest perfromaces of this song. Solidarity
Socialism is the future. All power to the proleteriat.
Yes I love all HIS SONGS.
Lullu Edge Socialism is the exact opposite, it is the downfall of the future.
Lullu Edge Socialism can be good, as long as there aren´t too many people in the system. People are people, and people are individuals with independent thoughts and independent preferences. Too many independent bodies in a socialist system, and that system will implode. Sad but true.:(
Lullu Edge Capitalism is the failure of the future. The wealthy get wealthier. The poor get poorer. Revolution will happen.
ArgaAnders That's why it works best at the level of the Kibbutz, or worker's co-op, much larger, and they become unworkable.
However, to be successful, they depend on the indulgence of a Democratic state, sympathetic to, or at least tolerant of the worker's struggle.
Don't believe me? Try starting a Kibbutz in "Communist" China.
It's so weird, China is fascist, and North Korea is a monarchy, but my TV tells me they're Communist.
Not to worry tho'; their TV's tell them the same thing...
Oops, Borgen's on... Gotta go... :)
Keep the faith workers of the world.
We ain't dead yet.......
Divino amooo por demais !
Reminds me a bit of me. I’m a miner and have died twice and brought back to life. Bled out and had total transfusion and a heavy drug overdose and won’t backdown
Never die
We love you Bruce
Don't Morn ORGANISE
I wonder how many fans, especially younger ones, pay attention to the message he is trying to pass. Do they just like all that because he is a star?
This is a great rendition of "Joe Hill." But, perhaps unfairly to Bruce, I "came here" after listening to Paul Robeson sing it. What a song!
Thank you, Bruce. Thank you!
Thankyou,Boss
Joe Hill was with us this past April. Thank you joe!
Einfach super. ..
I live in Utah, home of the "copper bosses". I first heard Luke Kelly sing this song and it will never die.
Tack!
Aren't we lucky to claim this man and Joe Hill, as ours.
Amo todas as músicas 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Grande, Bruce!
Der Boss, immer wieder gut...
Now more than ever, don't mourn, organise!
Amen Bruce!!!
Luke Kelly masters this song.
I wonder how many people in the crowd that day were aware of the story of Joe Hill...
surely there were many obsessed with bruce’s machismo that don’t listen to the content of his songs that would have despised him
Less than 1/2
The history of Joe Hill, the struggle for workers rights, and progressive change was never taught to me ... in public school.
Texas school boards determine which historic narrative is presented in our history books. I would be curious to know if the history book editions that I used in public school in the 60's were ever stored within the Dallas School Book Depository building on Elm Street overlooking Daily Plaza. Oswald didn't do it. Neither did James Earl Ray nor Sirhan Sirhan.
for the workingman, the journeyman, who walks through factory gates in the early morning rain, and out them onto the dark night, to keep his head above water and keep his family safe, no race, no colour, just a man
The Boss
AMO
❤️