MOTHER AND CHILD REUNION IS ABOUT JOE HILL, BERNIE

SANDERS ON STEROIDS

No, I would not give you false hope

On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away

Oh, little darling of mine

I can't for the life of me
Remember a sadder day
I know they say let it be
But it just don't work out that way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again

Oh, little darling of mine

I just can't believe it's so
Though it seems strange to say
I never been laid so low
In such a mysterious way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again

A songwriter, itinerant laborer, and union organizer, Joe Hill

became famous around the world after a Utah court convicted him of
murder. Even before the international campaign to have his conviction
reversed, however, Joe Hill was well known in hobo jungles, on picket
lines and at workers' rallies as the author of popular labor songs and as
an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) agitator. Thanks in large
part to his songs and to his stirring, well-publicized call to his fellow
workers on the eve of his execution—"Don't waste time mourning,
organize!"— or DON’T MOURN ORGANIZE Hill became, and he has
remained, the best-known IWW martyr and labor folk hero.

On Jan. 10, 1914, Hill knocked on the door of a Salt Lake City
doctor at 11:30 p.m. asking to be treated for a gunshot wound he said
was inflicted by an angry husband who had accused Hill of insulting his
wife. Earlier that evening, in another part of town, a grocer and his son
had been killed.
One of the assailants was wounded in the chest by the younger victim
before he died. Hill's injury therefore tied him to the incident. The
uncertain testimony of two eyewitnesses and the lack of any
corroboration of Hill's alibi convinced a local jury of Hill's guilt, even
though neither witness was able to identify Hill conclusively and the
gun used in the murders was never recovered. Hill’s sweetheart, Hilda
Erickson, wrote that Hill had told her he had been shot by her former
fiancé, Otto Appelquist — someone she had broken off with a week
earlier and who had asked her “if I liked Joe better than him.” In her
letter, she added, “I heard Joe tease Otto once that he was going to take
me away from him.”

No I would not give you false hope

On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away
Oh, little darling of mine, I care for the life of me
Remember a sadder day, that now they say let be
But it just don’t work out that way
And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again

Oh, little darling of mine, I just can't believe it's so

Though it seems strange to say, I never been laid so low
Such a mysterious way and the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again

No I would not give you false hope

No I would not give you false hope that this wrong might be righted.

On this strange and mournful day

“don’t morn organize”

But the mother and child reunion

Joe was a member of the International Workers of the World a

precursor to the New Left. But Joe Hill exoneration

Is only a motion away

A legal motion

Is still up to the Utah Courts to exonerate him.

Oh, little darling of mine, I can’t for the life of me

Remember a sadder day, that now they say let be

I can’t remember a sadder day than when Hill was shot to death by the
State of Utah and the conviction still stands.

But it just don’t work out that way

And the course of a lifetime runs
Over and over again
But all the protests were to no end: Work out - To accomplish by work
or effort and many believe he is still guilty

Oh, little darling of mine, I just can't believe it's so

Though it seems strange to say, I never been laid so low

He is nauseated by this miscarriage of just

Such a mysterious way and the course of a lifetime runs

And how Joe was framed because he was an agitator

Over and over again

And it still happens today