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If Rethuglicans Wrote Union Solidarity Songs, 1: “Joe Hill”

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,

alive as you and me.

Says I “But Joe, you’re ten years dead”

“I never died” said he,

So I picked up a piece of rebar and

beat him savagely, then I stole

the filthy Commie’s butter sandwich.

16 Replies to “If Rethuglicans Wrote Union Solidarity Songs, 1: “Joe Hill””

  1. SeanH says:

    That’s pretty freaking funny, Jeff.

  2. Sean M. says:

    Good job, slugger.  Now, who wants to go dig a hole out in the Meadowlands?

  3. Jeff Goldstein says:

    I just needed someplace to put “butter sandwich.”

  4. gail says:

    Quite moving. Especially if you use lots of butter.

  5. Sean C. says:

    Good god how many Sean’s do we have here?

  6. ss says:

    Come gather round children, its high time ye learned

    ‘bout a hero named John Henry

    and a Devil named Bushitler.

    We’ll march till we drop, the girls and the fella’s.

    We’ll fight till the death or else fold like butter sandwiches.

  7. mojo says:

    They say everything can be replaced…

  8. CraigC says:

    I would have thought his sammich would be welfare mystery meat, or maybe a ketchup sammich.  Can you get butter in a Socialist Worker’s Paradise?

    SW, “brought,” as in “This message brought to you by Local 13, Villains, Thieves, and Coundrels Union.”

  9. CraigC says:

    SCOUNDRELS

    SW, “work.” Ya can’t make this shit up.

  10. Salt Lick says:

    Butter. Definitely not from “Ballad of a Thin Man.” Maybe “Tombstone Blues.” Butter. Heh.

  11. Salt Lick says:

    And I’d like jelly on my, too, because I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!

  12. Paul Zrimsek says:

    Which side are you buttered on?

    Which side are you buttered on?

  13. Chrees says:

    Are you sure it wasn’t Joe Wilson instead?

  14. Karl Maher says:

    I can’t get that last line to work with the melody. Could you hum it for me?

    “And baked him in a pie” would’ve worked, though.

  15. Jeff Goldstein says:

    I have to tell y’all:  I’m still giggling over this.

  16. Beck says:

    You know what you never hear of anymore?  Bacon sandwiches.  God I love bacon.

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