We're talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.
"Joe Hill", born "Joel Emmanuel Hägglund" in Gävle, Sweden, and also known as "Joseph Hillström" was a Swedish American/Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, also known as the "Wobblies"). A native Swedish language/Swedish speaker, he learned English during the early 1900s, while working various jobs from New York to San Francisco. Hill, as an immigrant worker frequently facing unemployment and underemployment, became a popular song writer and cartoonist for the radical union. His most famous songs include "The Preacher and the Slave" (in which he created the well-known phrase "pie in the sky"), "The Tramp (song)/The Tramp", "There is Power in a Union", "The Rebel Girl (song)/The Rebel Girl", and "Casey Jones—the Union Scab", which express the harsh but combative life of itinerant workers, and call for workers to organize their efforts to improve conditions for working people.
More Joe Hill on Wikipedia.Don't waste any time mourning - organize!
A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once. But a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over.
Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die.
We didn't give Ravenna many good looks at the basket. We've been working hard on our defense in practice.
You'll get pie in the sky when you die (The Preacher and The Slave).
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning -- organize.
Montague came out a little more aggressive in the second half.
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