Editing Industrial Workers of the World (section)

==Folk music and protest songs==
{{see also|Little Red Songbook|Solidarity Forever}}
[[File:Wobbly boy.jpg|thumb|alt=Booklet cover with large title, "IWW Songs", and illustration of a man climbing over a hill, reaching skyward, with factories in the background.|Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent: The ''[[Little Red Songbook]]'']]

One Wobbly characteristic since their inception has been a penchant for song. To counteract management sending in the [[Salvation Army]] band to cover up the Wobbly speakers, [[Joe Hill (activist)|Joe Hill]] wrote parodies of [[Christianity|Christian]] [[hymn]]s so that union members could sing along with the Salvation Army band, but with their own purposes. For example, "[[In the Sweet By and By]]" became "[[There'll Be Pie in the Sky When You Die (That's a Lie)]]". From that start in exigency, Wobbly song writing became common because they "articulated the frustrations, hostilities, and humor of the homeless and the dispossessed."<ref>{{cite book|title=Rebel Voices: An I.W.W. Anthology|editor-last=Kornbluh|editor-first=Joyce L.|publisher=University of Michigan Press|location=Ann Arbor, MI, USA|year=1964|page=131}}</ref>