The Rebel Girl

"The Rebel Girl" is a song written or completed by Joe Hill in 1915.[1]:287 The song was published in the Little Red Songbook of the Industrial Workers of the World, and as sheet music in 1915. It is said that Hill wrote the song for IWW orator Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. It has also been claimed that it was inspired Katie Phar and Agnes Fair.[1]:290

This article is about the Joe Hill song. For the Bikini Kill song, see Rebel Girl (song).
"The Rebel Girl"
Song
LanguageEnglish
Published1915
Songwriter(s)Joe Hill

The song was recorded with modernized lyrics by Hazel Dickens on the 1990 Smithsonian Folkways album Don't Mourn, Organize! Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill.

Hill sent copies of the sheet music with his own art work to both Flynn and the Scandinavian Propaganda League. The IWW used cover art by Arthur Machia in their printed version of the sheet music.[1]:290–292

See also

Works related to The Rebel Girl at Wikisource

  • Wobbly lingo

References
  1. Rosemont, Franklin (2003). Joe Hill the IWW & the making of a revolutionary workingclass counterculture (1st ed.). Chicago, Ill: Kerr. ISBN 088286-265-0.
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