The term was coined by Joe Hill (1979-1915), a Swedish-American labor activist and song writer. Further explanation from Phrases.org:
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. The song, which criticized the Army’s theology and philosophy, specifically their concentration on the salvation of souls rather than the feeding of the hungry, was popular when first recorded and remained so for some years.
Long-haired preachers come out every night, Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right; But when asked how 'bout something to eat They will answer with voices so sweet:
Chorus: You will eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You’ll get pie in the sky when you die.
You’ll get pie in the sky when you die. That’s about the best to sum up an organized religion. If they promise you anything good at all, you often have to die to get it.
Summing up here, though, “pie in the sky” is a promise, an idea, a plan that’s unlikely to ever come to fruition.
An apple may fall from the sky but not an apple pie. That, well, remains too good to be true.
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