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This is an American phrase and was coined by Joe Hill in 1911. Hill was a Swedish-born itinerant labourer who migrated to the USA in 1902. He was a leading light of the radical labour organisation The Industrial Workers of the World - known as the Wobblies, writing many radical songs for them.
The phrase appeared first in Hill's The Preacher and the Slave, which parodied the Salvation Army hymn In the Sweet Bye and Bye:
From the day of your birth it's bread and water here on earth
To a child of life to a child of life
But there'll be pie in the sky by and by when I die and it'll be alright it'll be alright
There'll be pie in the sky by and by when I die and it'll be alright it'll be alright
To a child of life to a child of life
But there'll be pie in the sky by and by when I die and it'll be alright it'll be alright
There'll be pie in the sky by and by when I die and it'll be alright it'll be alright
Sometimes I doubt and fear that I've really gained salvation here
For it's out of sight for it's out of sight
For it's out of sight for it's out of sight
But there'll be pie in the sky
He said if I do his will there's a promise he'd fulfill
And he's gone now to prepare be a mansion up there
And he's gone now to prepare be a mansion up there
And there'll be pie in the sky
There'll be pie in the sky
There'll be pie in the sky.
There'll be pie in the sky
There'll be pie in the sky.
The US labourer and writer Joe Hill coined
the expression 'Pie in the sky'.
the expression 'Pie in the sky'.
