It’s a Long Way 
 Down to the 
 Soup Line 
 
 By 
 
 JOE HILL 
 
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 This parody was written in Salt Lake County 
 Jail by Joe Hill, author of “Mr. Block,” “Scissor 
 Bill” “The White Slave and other I. W. W. 
 compositions. 
 
 Joe Hill has incurred the displeasure of the 
 capitalists of this country and they have therefore 
 framed up a charge of murder and had him 
 sentenced to death. 
 
 This parody was presented to the I. W. W. 
 Locals of San Francisco and surroundings to be 
 used in the interest of Industrial Union agitation, 
 but it was concluded to place it on the market at 
 5 c. The proceeds to go to the Joe Hill Defense 
 Fund. 
 
 HELP SET HIM FREE. NcU 
 
It^s a Long, Long Way Down 
 To the Soupline 
 
 By J. H: Air “Tipperary” 
 
 Bill Brown came a thousand miles to work on Frisco Fair, 
 All the papers said a million men were wanted there; 
 
 Bill Brown hung around and asked for work three times a 
 day. 
 
 ’Til finally he went busted flat, then he did sadly say, 
 
 CHORUS 
 
 It’s a long way down to the soupline 
 It’s a long way to go. 
 
 It’s a long way down to the soupline 
 And the soup is weak I know. 
 
 Good-bye, good old pork chops 
 Fare-Well beefsteak rare. 
 
 It’s a long, long way down to the soupline 
 But my soup is there. 
 
 II 
 
 Bill Brown saw a big fine house, he knocked upon the door. 
 But they told him that they only helped the “worthy poor.’’ 
 
 “Guess I’ll have to live on sunshine in the Golden West.’’ 
 Said Billy Brown, and then he joined the chorus with 
 
 the rest. 
 
 CHORUS 
 
 III 
 
 There’s a whisper round the town among “the men of means’’ 
 That they would be glad to give the Fair to New Orleans. 
 
 And when all is over many sharks with faces long 
 
 Will line up at the Ferry and then sadly hum this song, 
 
 CHORUS 
 
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