video by Bruce McIntosh - "Guy and Sledgehammer"
Joseph Fee, Jr., a third generation Irish-American New York City union steamfitter.  His grandfather came from Ireland during World War I, they met him at the dock with a promise of his union card, but the deal was first you do a little something for Uncle Sam.  He went overseas to fight, came home minus one lung lost in to damage from mustard gas and went to work.  His son Joseph became a steamfitter, and finally “Joey”.  The song was recorded during the Depression in a Mississippi State Penitentiary, the black inmates chopping logs and trees.  Asked Joey to try and time out his hammer strikes to the axe swings, happening as his grandfather was up North, fitting pipe…

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