There Is Power In A Union by Joe Hill

“There Is Power in a Union” is one of Joe Hill’s most enduring recruiting songs. After his execution, the song was sung at his funeral in Salt Lake City and again at his funeral in Chicago. The song is performed here by Folk Hogan in Salt Lake City’s Sugar House Park, near the site where Utah’s state prison once stood and where Hill was executed by a firing squad on Nov. 19, 1915. Lyrics: Would you have freedom from wage slavery Then join in the grand Industrial band Would you from mis’ry and hunger be free Then come! Do your share, like a man There is power, there is power In a band of workingmen When they stand hand in hand That’s a power, that’s a power That must rule in every land One Industrial Union Grand Would you have mansions of gold in the sky And live in a shack, way in the back? Would you have wings up in heaven to fly And starve here with rags on your back? If you’ve had enough of “the bl