Monday, January 26, 2009

1910's Song: Analyzing "The Preacher and the Slave"

http://www.bloomington.in.us/~mitch/iww/preacher.html
The song is a parody of "In the Sweet By and By." "If you fight hard for children and wife, Try to get something good in this life, You're a sinner and bad man, they tell, When you die you will sure go to hell." The first stanza of the song is saying that every night the preachers come out and give a sermon to those who ask about food. Hill is trying to say that religion is not meeting the immediate needs of people. Hill also is saying that religion is on the side of the corporate heads.

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