Bruce Springsteen- "Joe Hill" (Tampa, FL 05/01/14)

[@Godai83]

I'm italian but i'don't forget the real american heroes: Joe Hill, Gene Debs, the IWW and many others. Long Live socialism!

[@LenaKronberg]

Swedish heroes. Joe Hill was a Swede.

[@eric3844]

Solidarity Forever! The Union Makes Us Strong! Long Live Joe Hill! Long Live the Industrial Workers of the World!

[@Wrz2e]

Amen Comrade! Viva Socialismo

[@nestorsdragon8057]

Long live ANARCHIST socialism

[@nestorsdragon8057]

Social anarchy for the win y'all

[@alanmuldoon5587]

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 😍🥺😍🥺

[@Avisionoflove]

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 came all the way from Sweden to Tampa, to see Bruce open with a song about a Swede.

[@alanoneill3065]

great!

[@philruane5575]

Good on ya mate xx

[@ahopefor]

Good on ya

[@tagace]

Does Bruce know

[@obautista58]

Wow 🥰

[@UncleZhou49]

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!

[@lukedoesbutter]

Amen comrade

[@SBlackmare]

Absolutely. Born Joel Hägglund, known as Joe Hillström in the United States. I’m also both, and I feel he is universal.

[@hoshangshah]

Yes comrade. beautifully put.

[@Mark-tl1yp]

And beyond that is global humanism - bonds of broad equity and deep human rights for all and forever!

[@matthewhamstein3811]

@@Mark-tl1yp lollll this liberal garbage, I could hear the same abstract idealist nonsense from Joe biden

[@QueenMegaera]

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.

[@Mark-tl1yp]

Powerful!

[@nathansells3772]

Thanks comrade! We're still here!!!

[@brbrtrff]

Tack Elisabet, många år senare och fortfarande samma budskap!

[@MrWhiteamin]

@@nathansells3772 The blood that runs thtough my veins is just as red as yours , So we are reds,

[@anelladambrosio2513]

@@MrWhiteamin ciao Jan! Come stai? 🙋‍♀️😍😘💕🎶

[@alanmacreamoinn6691]

Greetings from Dublin, Ireland. 1 our legendary folk singers, the late Luke Kelly, sang a fabulous version of this.

[@AndersJackson]

That is are really fabulous version. I think that was the first version I heard.

[@philruane5910]

Try the Paul Robeson version ❤️

[@z008je]

Bruce sings Joe Hill on the 1st of May. It just gets better and better.

[@hiddenfromhistory100]

the dream never dies, brothers and sisters - have the courage to live it and take back our world!

[@silverwhistle]

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.

[@MarthaYTPlaylist]

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

[@MarthaYTPlaylist]

***** 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

[@hakanorman2216]

+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!

[@toucanne]

This old song never died either... :)

[@MyrrdinMerlin]

There is however a Joe Hill Museum in his town of birth. facebook.com/pg/Joe-Hill-Museum-G%C3%A4vle-187445354637471/posts/

[@vgrepairs]

I'm 24 and I remember Joe Hill and the IWW!

[@jamespatrick8281]

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.

[@TheWorldsMoralMiddleFinger]

The story of Joel Emmanuel Hägglund aka Joe Hill is of great importance to the working man & woman even today. Unite & fight!

[@Mark-tl1yp]

Any version of 'Joe Hill' is good but the Paul Robeson version is absolute magic. *gets out the handkerchief*

[@MrDanilocao]

I don't think so. Joan Baez performance in Woodstock is thrilling.

[@mybiglenovo]

Agree with you - Paul Robeson is fabulous. I love a bit of bass-baritone though :)

[@madhuripillai7756]

I first heard this song in 1969 when played in Woodstock. It’s filled with nostalgia.

[@birgittagrunerwald7726]

❤️Beautiful song! Fantastic performance! Thank you for sharing!❤️

[@vancehawkins9524]

Joe Hill's motive wasn't against something -- he organized FOR living wages for laborers, and for decent life for the poor.

[@no834]

That's a point that needs to be pointed out. Thanks

[@gercowzer4688]

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

[@EricDavidFloyd]

The man who never died - long live Joe!

[@benjamineckford1718]

This is the song I’ll have at my funeral (but the Paul Robeson version). Up the workers of the world ✊

[@nicolasm400]

The IWW is coming back because we need it more than ever, and this time we'll win.

[@hubertblastinoff9001]

As the old song goes "and we'll fill our vacant ranks of our brothers gone before..."

[@akewlen2888]

We never grieve!

[@knudn.flensted6169]

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.

[@utahsasquatch5898]

I wish he would come here to Salt Lake and sing about Joe Hill. So those "Copper Bosses" can here him loud and clear!

[@ZOGGYDOGGY]

Now if Bruce could just start singing some of Joe's songs.

[@silverwhistle]

+Mike Ballard Yes! He channels something of the Hill and Guthrie spirit in 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' and 'Youngstown'.

[@bipedalame]

Joe Hill alive and well in Scotland. Always will be

[@Grtfled72]

My first show and the first song I saw him do. I knew it was going to be a magical night. Thanks for posting.

[@ericgordon7164]

Let us not forget the writers of this song: Alfred Hayes lyrics, and Earl Robinson music.

[@shoulderghost1]

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!

[@no834]

Thanks for the information

[@RickardAgren]

Absolutly Joe.Hil. A real.hero.from close to.Gavle..RAa

[@srlind2835]

We miss you Joe Hill!

[@brbrtrff]

Thank you Bruce, for once I am proud of a fellow swede! This is so needed today.

[@robertwiesler381]

Absolutely fantastic The BOSS can do EVERY song great This man is a true hero

[@jjsprowl1628]

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 ...)

[@dogs1905]

There's power in the union, there'd power in the land, there's power in the hands of the workers

[@kjellgostanilsson558]

Joel Hägglund was born and grew up in my hometown of Gävle, Sweden, where his family home has been turned into a museum.

[@AndersJackson]

Yes, I have been there and I has also performed there at Joe Hill-gården.

[@anelladambrosio2513]

Una stupenda interpretazione !! Cime sempre Bruce ci commuove!!!😕😕😍😍😍😘😘😘🎸🎷🎶💎🌟🗽🌲⛄

[@Onionbaron]

A song is impossible to kill...

[@GanjaClaus]

+Micael Håkans ..they wish :))

[@no834]

So is an idea

[@MsNinjaA]

Joe Hill=Joel Emmanuel Hägglund från Gävle. And YES! We REALLY need You back in Sweden. Nice shirt by the way :)

[@INADRM]

Heartbreaking! Never listened to much Springsteen but this is too good.

[@stephaniequintana9562]

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,

[@rlbrown1009]

Beautiful! 💕 He's still remembered.

[@MaryannaChanteuse]

Magnifique, superbe et magique !! Un énorme grand bravo !!!

[@brbrtrff]

Thank you Bruce, this is so needed today. 4:19

[@MarthaYTPlaylist]

PS....this is where the phrase "pie in the sky" came from.....just one tidbit of beauty and truth concerning Joe Hill. Martha

[@MarthaYTPlaylist]

+MattShizzle Thank you for the information!!!!

[@AndersJackson]

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.

[@gaildryburgh7119]

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...

[@AndyMorrisArt]

Power to the People!

[@PatrickDuganOFFICIAL]

Such a great song. Just bought the live Tampa archive release just for this.

[@owenjackman426]

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!

[@MonaLisa-lu8zi]

Need to listen to Luke Kelly and Joan Biaz - all great.

[@owenjackman426]

@@MonaLisa-lu8zi Joan Baez yes. Luke Kelly not so much (Grump cat emoji NO)

[@AndreasKristDE]

Stunning! Great performance!

[@johnkalwaic4084]

The Boss, singing about a guy who organized against bosses!

[@paulanderberg7897]

John Kalwaic Good one!!

[@austinkonrad]

Yeah but he absolutely hates that nickname

[@MrAsda64]

He's the only boss we listen to

[@Sam-lr9oi]

I forget where I first saw it but "Springsteen is the only man the working class will call Boss"

[@joblo6394]

😂💁🏽‍♂️

[@anelladambrosio2513]

Ascolto spesso questa canzone...e devo dire che ogni volta e un emozione nuova....grazie Bruce!Dio ti benedica!😊😍😘🎶🎸🎶💘💓💝💔💯💋

[@sprouts100]

Beautiful

[@jeremyglauert870]

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

[@eddifavaro7105]

Grazie boss,grazie!!!magico...grande...assolutamente unico

[@Landstedts]

Love you Bruce! We want you in SWEDEN soon!!!!

[@alanmoroney8228]

And he needs to sing this song - about a great Swede!

[@JESUSWASAJUGGALO]

+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.

[@ellenward2120]

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

[@gundelhedlund1712]

OH vilket glädjeskutt för själen nu lever jag vidare

[@francespower4631]

Great version.

[@MrAsda64]

Its sad this isnt on spotify its up there with robesons as one of the greatest perfromaces of this song. Solidarity

[@IsisMusic]

A poor boy from Sweden. He never saw this happening. Singing about him. Wonderful

[@valquiriabueno5414]

Brilhant 💎💎💎 Love 💘 Bruce Springsteen 💘🎤🎸🎷🎹🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼

[@JanetAMills]

Thank you, Bruce!

[@thefabs4022]

Good on ya Bruce!!!!!!!!!! Dam right he didn´t die. Apart from that a local train here in Sweden also bears his name.

[@rosannacorsi5084]

Thank Bruce happy biirthday you' the best

[@maricruzvizarretea3839]

Me encanta, lo amo

[@comeonyouyellows]

I wonder how many people in the crowd that day were aware of the story of Joe Hill...

[@alexanderdickens2517]

surely there were many obsessed with bruce’s machismo that don’t listen to the content of his songs that would have despised him

[@no834]

Less than 1/2

[@roadend78]

Respect from the people's socialist republic of Liverpool YNWA .

[@davidhoward7322]

Well said comrade EFC

[@MichaelWilliams-tt3lz]

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!

[@nedludd7622]

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?

[@jpdalvi]

This song almost always makes me cry

[@jackhamilton7845]

The most powerful, moving version of this song ever recorded. From Bruce's heart.........

[@Maximillian-Tiberius-Rex]

Don't Morn ORGANISE

[@MartinBraonain]

Sung with such passion and understanding

[@adelecutler1195]

I live in Utah, home of the "copper bosses". I first heard Luke Kelly sing this song and it will never die.

[@ΘάνοςΜπλάκφλαγκ]

Long live social revolution. Long live working class. Long live libertarian communism and anarchy.

[@glennmoore7312]

+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.

[@ΘάνοςΜπλάκφλαγκ]

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.

[@JESUSWASAJUGGALO]

+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).

[@riverdog7678]

+Θάνος Μπλάκφλαγκ "that means after revolution we destroy the state immediately" and order will be maintained by the honor code.

[@thordnilsson8388]

Thankyou,Boss

[@cardinalflower6959]

LOVE IT with the 12-string guitar.

[@GERARDAUGUST]

Magical !!!!

[@anelladambrosio2513]

Questa canzone e molto toccante!!!😢😄😇😍😘🎸💎🎶🌲⛄💫🌟

[@seankinvarra1123]

Luke Kelly masters this song.

[@wilmerthewhite]

Leo: Alfred Hayes wrote the text "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" in 1925. Earl Robinson wrote the music to it in 1936.

[@thorne3677]

springsteen keeping joe hill alive forever ❤️

[@MsNinjaA]

Tack!

[@comeonyouyellows]

Rest in Power, Joe - you never died.

[@matt143450]

Joe Hill was with us this past April. Thank you joe!

[@wigglytoesauce86]

Aren't we lucky to claim this man and Joe Hill, as ours.

[@joaomanuelvelosobarbara]

Never die

[@johanakermyr1437]

Keep the faith workers of the world. We ain't dead yet.......

[@charliesmith4072]

Earl Robinson, who composed the song, lived and died in Seattle. We loved him.

[@jeffweeks9645]

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

[@RonRicho]

Thank you, Bruce. Thank you!

[@terrywestmorland3069]

We love you Bruce

[@VeraCruz48ho62jn122014]

Divino amooo por demais !

[@mokronoh]

Einfach super. ..

[@richardjaber3139]

Revolutionaries are dead men on furlough I got stoned one night and went home to see what it would be like relating to Mom and Dad in that condition. It was the same but different. Tolstoy coming out of her mouth, Bakunin out of his. And it was suddenly all weird and super-freaky, like Goddard shooting a Kafka scene: two dead Russians debating with each other, long after they were dead and buried, out of the mouths of a pair of Chicago Irish radicals. The young frontal-lobe-type anarchists in the city were in their first surrealist revival just then and I had been reading some of their stuff and it clicked. "You're both wrong," I said. "Freedom won't come through Love, and it won't come through Force. It will come through the Imagination." I put in all the capital letters and I was so stoned that they got contact-high and heard them, too. Their mouths dropped open and I felt like William Blake telling Tom Paine where it was really at. A Knight of Magic waving my wand and dispersing the shadows of Maya. Dad was the first to recover. "Imagination," he said, his big red face crinkling in that grin that always drove the cops crazy when they were arresting him. "That's what comes of sending good working-class boys to rich people's colleges. Words and books get all mixed up with reality in their heads. When you were in that jail in Mississippi you imagined yourself through the walls, didn't you? How many times an hour did you imagine yourself through the walls? I can guess. The first time I was arrested, during the GE strike of thirty-three, I walked through those walls a million times. But every time I opened my eyes, the walls and the bars were still there. What got me out finally? What got you out of Biloxi finally? Organization. If you want big words to talk to intellectuals with, that's a fine big word, son, just as many syllables as imagination, and it has a lot more realism in it." That's what I remember best about him, that one speech, and the strange clear blue of his eyes. He died that year, and I found out that there was more to the Imagination than I had known, for he didn't die at all. He's still around, in the back of my skull somewhere, arguing with me, and that's the truth. It's also the truth that he's dead, really dead, and part of me was buried with him. It's uncool to love your father these days, so I didn't even know that I loved him until they closed the coffin and I heard myself sobbing, and it comes back again, that same emptiness, whenever I hear "Joe Hill": "The copper bosses lulled you, Joe." "I never died," said he. Both lines are true, and mourning never ends. They didn't shoot Dad the clean way, like Joe Hill, but they ground him down, year after year, burning out his Wob fires (and he was Aries, a real fire sign) with their cops, their courts, their jails, and their taxes, their corporations, their cages for the spirit and cemeteries for the soul, their plastic liberalism and murderous Marxism, and even as I say that I have to pay a debt to Lenin for he gave me the words to express how I felt when Dad was gone. "Revolutionaries," he said, "are dead men on furlough."

[@rarezombie]

Joe Hill a true Swedish working class hero

[@anniabuhl5991]

500 a ticket, in the spirit of Joe hill, of course

[@anniabuhl5991]

His tickets are so fucken expensive

[@robokugel3383]

he never died

[@nicolalange6513]

Der Boss, immer wieder gut...

[@patriciabohmalves3296]

Amo todas as músicas 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@buttafan4010]

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.