ASmith1946 wrote:

e were working on an opera (!) about Joe Hill, the union organizer.


I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you or me
Says I, "But Joe, you're ten years dead ...

Love that song! (Did Woody Guthrie popularize it?)

I think it's the only song he didn't sing. g

Alfred Hayes wrote it (around 1925 if memory serves) but Paul Robeson,
Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and lots of others have sung it...

Pastorio