Paul Robeson

Joe Hill sung by Paul Robeson

Hill was memorialized in a tribute poem written about him c. 1930 by Alfred Hayes titled "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night", sometimes referred to simply as "Joe Hill". Hayes's lyrics were turned into a song in 1936 by Earl Robinson:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill
Paul Robeson sang this song while in Edinburgh to perform a miners' benefit concert in the Usher Hall for 3000 miners and their families sponsored by the Scottish National Union of Mineworkers as featured in the documentary film A Star Drops In (1949):
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/474544/index.html
"Robeson had long been something of a hero to the British mining community, ever since he starred in the film Proud Valley (d. Pen Tennyson, 1940) as an American sailor stranded in Cardiff who finds work in a Welsh colliery (the newsreel opens with a short clip from the film).
Robeson then visits an Edinburgh colliery and sings 'I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night' in its canteen. Joe Hill was a poet and union organiser for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), executed on a trumped-up murder charge in 1915 and subsequently immortalized as a workers' hero of similar stature to Robeson himself."
Part of the Raretunes Archive- see
http://www.raretunes.org/recordings/joe-hill/

Other songs by Paul Robeson

Loch Lomond
Lonely Road (Song Of Freedom 1934)
Mah Lindy Lou (1933)
Mexican Lullaby
My Curly-Headed Baby (Big Fella 1937)
My Curly Headed Baby
My Old Kentucky Home (1930)
My Way (Jericho 1937)
Nearer My God To Thee
Nightfall (Calling All Stars 1938)
The Banjo Song 1934
The Black Emperor
The Blind Ploughman
The Freedom Train
THE LONESOME ROAD
The Minstrel Boy
Trees
Water Boy (The Emperor Jones 1935)
Were You There