Where the phrase comes from · Card no. 4076
From Joe Hill's 1911 union song The Preacher and the Slave, which mocked preachers promising the hungry that they would eat by and by, in that glorious land above the sky. Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.
No such place exists, which has never stopped anyone from going. Every card here is an original painting of a phrase, free to send by email or by link.