A Diller, A Dollar (1955) (continued)

[paulzjoh]

Didn't Alfred Hayes write the poem/lyrics?

Mark A. Mandel wrote:

>   Page Stephens <hpst at EARTHLINK.NET> informs us:
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>Ballad For Americans was written by Earl Robinson whom I met many years ago.
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>He was a leftist composer, and his most famous song was "I Dreamed I Saw Joe
>Hill Last Night" which goes:
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>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
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>Funny coincidence(?): I was just thinking of this song last night, and I
>don't remember knowing that it was written by the same person. What I think
>I remember reminding me of it, though, was walking past the storefront
>bookstore that now announces itself as the Dubois Club; a few months ago &
>was for the American Communist Party.
>
>-- Mark A. Mandel, fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties, and
>double-ohs* folkie
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>* That's what I call the current decade. I still haven't seen a better name.
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