wompratbullseye, "Joe Hill's Last Will" (Little Red Songbook), 2013.
My will is easy to decide,
for there is nothing to divide.
My kin don't need to fuss and moan--
"Moss does not cling to a rolling stone."
My Body?-Oh!-If I could choose
I would want to ashes it reduce,
and let the merry breezes blow
my dust to where some flowers grow.
Perhaps some fading flower then
would come to life and bloom again.
This is my Last and final will,
Good Luck to all of you, Joe Hill.
Joe Hill, "My Last Will" (November 18, 1915).
First printed in the Herald-Republican (Salt Lake City, Utah), November 18, 1915.
Reprinted in "Franklin Rosemont, Joe Hill: The IWW and the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture: Profusely Illustrated" (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 2002), p. 132.
see also: "IWW Songs-to Fan the Flames of Discontent: A Reprint of the Nineteenth Edition (1923) of the Famous Little Red Song Book" (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 2003).
The 38th edition: "Little Red Songbook"(Chicago, IL), 2010.
Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, and Salvatore Salerno, eds., The Big Red Songbook. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co., 2007.
Steve Earle reads Joe Hill's "My Last Will" (November 18, 1915) on November 11, 2006 from Voices of a People's History.