{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2307701,"song":"Goodbye Joe Hill","artist":"Rosalie Sorrels","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11481995-goodbye-joe-hill-chords-by-rosalie-sorrels/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2307701?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"A song dedicated to Joe Hill , the great social shaker and songwriter killed by the State of Utah in 1915,\r\nTom Joad , the protagonist of \"The Grapes of Wrath\" by John Steinbeck,\r\nGene Debs (1855-1926), historical leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)\r\nand Ammon Hennacy (1893-1970), a pacifist and anarchist Christian who was the founder of the \"Joe Hill House\",\r\nhome of the Catholic Worker Movement in Salt Lake City\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                            [ch]B[/ch]\r\nGoodbye, Joe Hill, we've had some good times here.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI wish you could stay around for just another year.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut the battle line keeps movin' and I know that you can't stay.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                                        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI guess sometimes it just works out that way.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]                                            [ch]B[/ch]\r\nGoodbye, Tom Joad, we'll meet, I don't know where.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                   [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWe're a better kind of people for knowin' you were here.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIt was a damn good fight, Tom, but we lost and that's a shame;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                                        [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'm glad we stood and fought it, all the same.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nGoodbye, Gene Debs, I know just where you'll be:[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]B[/ch]                              [ch]A[/ch]               [ch]E[/ch]\r\n\"While there's a man in prison, my soul can not be free.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                                    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWell, Gene, you tried to change them, but they beat you in the end;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D#m[/ch]                            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'm glad that we had you for a friend.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                                [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd Ammon, you old rebel, it's just another round.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]A[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nTakes more than politicians to keep a rebel down.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThere's one thing I know for certain, I swear by God it's true:[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                                           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThis blue-nosed town ain't seen the last of you.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nSo long, Joe Hill. So long, but not goodbye.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                                        [ch]A[/ch]             [ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou're off to teach some grafters how to sizzle and to fry.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut someday we're going to need you Joe, you and all your friends,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]B[/ch]                               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWe'll never have to say goodbye again.[/tab]","plain_text":"A song dedicated to Joe Hill , the great social shaker and songwriter killed by the State of Utah in 1915,\nTom Joad , the protagonist of \"The Grapes of Wrath\" by John Steinbeck,\nGene Debs (1855-1926), historical leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)\nand Ammon Hennacy (1893-1970), a pacifist and anarchist Christian who was the founder of the \"Joe Hill House\",\nhome of the Catholic Worker Movement in Salt Lake City\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]","chords":["A","E","B","D#m"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}