ext_24692 ([identity profile] therru.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] frualeydis 2006-03-23 02:31 pm (UTC)

He was very clever actually; he used popular songs of the day (e.g. several Salvation Army melodies) and set new lyrics to them. That way, everybody knew the melodies already and could sing along.

Dan Andersson was contemporary with him, but is chiefly known as one of our greatest working class poets. He actually went to America the same year as Joe Hill, but returned home again. A lot of his poems have been set to music by others.

He, too, died young. Just the other day, actually, someone told me that he died because a hotel he stayed in had sprayed the room with some poison against bugs, and not aired the room properly afterwards. He was found dead in the morning.

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