Sep 3, 2012
Artist: Utah Phillips Track: The Preacher and The Slave Album: Classic Labor Songs From Smithsonian Folkways Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Year: 1975 / 2006
Written in 1911 by IWW bard, Joe Hill, The Preacher and The Slave is a parody of the hymn In the Sweet By and By and takes issue with the Church doctrine (in this case, embodied by the Salvation Army) that the downtrodden should face their adversity with meek humility... trusting in a spiritual reward for their forbearance in the afterlife.
You'll get pie in the sky when you die (that's a lie)