It's a Long Way Down to the Soup Line

DESCRIPTION: "Bill Brown came a thousand miles to work on Frisco Fair, All the papers said a million men were wanted there." But he couldn't find a job, and concludes, "It's a long way down to the soup line." If the Fair moves, then the sharks singing this chorus
AUTHOR: Words: Joe Hill / Music: "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary"
EARLIEST DATE: 1915 (various I.W. W. publications, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: labor-movement travel work derivative
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REFERENCES (4 citations):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 521, "It's a Long Way Down to the Soup Line" (1 text, tune referenced)
ADDITIONAL: (Barrie Stavis and Frank Harmon, editors), _The Songs of Joe Hill_, 1960, now reprinted in the Oak Archives series, pp. 34-35, "It's a Long Way Down to the Soupline" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gibbs M. Smith, _Joe Hill_, 1969 (I use the 1984 Peregrine Smith Books edition), pp. 30, 260, "It's a Long Way Down to the Soupline" (1 text, tune referenced)
William M. Adler, _The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon_, Bloomsbury Press, 2011, p. 266-267, "(It's a Long Way Down to the Soup Line" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary" (tune) and references there
File: LDC521

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