I Dreamed That I Saw Sue Last Night

"I Dreamed That I Saw Sue Last Night"

This is an adaptation of the 1936 song by Earl Robinson, "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill," and could be sung to the same tune. For the original song, as well as info. about labor organizer and anarchist Joe Hill, see http://www.spunk.org/library/groups/iww/sp000758.txt – Helen Daniels
(Tune available at http://davidgardiner.net/The_Ballad_of_Joe_Hill.mp3)

I dreamed that I saw Sue last night,
Alive as you or me.
Says I, “But Sue! You’re ten months dead!”
“I never died,” says she.
“I never died,” says she.

“But Sue,” says I, “a young man’s rage...
He killed you in your bed!
On Sara’s farm, at breaking dawn...”
Says Sue, “But I ain’t dead.”
Says Sue, “But I ain’t dead!”

“Don’t you remember, Sue,” says I,
“The knife, the fire, the fear,
The man who would not let you go?"
-- She's standin' very near,
She whispers in my ear --

"It takes more than a man to kill the voice
Of a woman whose heart is sure,
Who knows herself, and speaks her truth,"
Says Sue, "there's one thing more,
I've got to say just one thing more --

"Where women rise to witness,
Where our stories find the light,
Where sisters stand, till justice comes,
That's where I'll be tonight.
That's where I'll be tonight."