Irony is a pastor asking for money to solve church problems, and advising you to pray to solve yours.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    After looking into it, yes! Joe Hill wrote this song in 1910, these lyrics are from the song “the Preacher and the Slave”. It probably stems from the 1910 Spokane Free Speech Fight, where the IWW was butting heads with the Salvation Army and the government of Spokane