Irony is a pastor asking for money to solve church problems, and advising you to pray to solve yours.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    And the starvation army they play

    And they shout and they clap and they pray

    Till they get all your coin on the drum

    Then they tell you when you’re on the bum

    You will eat (you will eat) by and by (by and by)

    In that glorious land in the sky (Way up high)

    Work and pray (Work and pray), live on hay (Live on hay)

    You’ll get pie in the sky when you die

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        After looking into it, yes! Joe Hill wrote this song in 1910, these lyrics are from the song “the Preacher and the Slave”. It probably stems from the 1910 Spokane Free Speech Fight, where the IWW was butting heads with the Salvation Army and the government of Spokane