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"I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night", also known simply as "Joe Hill", is a trade union song named after the labor activist and songwriter of the same name. It was, however, not written by him; it was originally written in poem by Alfred Hayes and composed into music by Earl Robinson in 1936.

In 2014, the public figure Paul Robeson version of the song was the third-most requested song by British Labour politicians on Desert Island Discs, behind "Jerusalem" and "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika".

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