Joan Baez The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti

Joan Baez performed this song for the 1971 film Sacco and Vanzetti. The pictures and drawings (namely by Ben Shahn and William Groper) are taken from publications of the time of the case. Father, yes I am a prisoner; Fear not to relay my crime. The crime is loving the forsaken, Only silence is shame. And now I ll tell you what s against us, An art that s lived for Go through the world and you will find What s blackened all of history. Against us is the law with its Immensity of