Song Lyrics Guthrie Arlo - 1913 Massacre    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> G>> Guthrie Arlo Singer Lyrics [Guthrie Arlo other resources]>> 1913 Massacre Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Guthrie Arlo Music Title/Track: 1913 Massacre Theme ID: 11574 Album: N/A by Woody Guthrie Take a trip with me in nineteen thirteen To Calumet, Michigan in the copper country I'll take you to a place called Italian Hall And the miners are having their big Christmas ball I'll take you in a door and up a high stairs Singing and dancing is heard ev'rywhere I'll let you shake hands with the people you see And watch the kids dance 'round the big Christmas tree. There's talking and laughing and songs in the air And the spirit of Christmas is there ev'rywhere Before you know it you're friends with us all And you're dancing around and around in the hall You ask about work and you ask about pay They'll tell you they make less than a dollar a day Working their copper claims, risking their lives So it's fun to spend Christmas with children and wives. A little girl sits down by the Christmas tree lights To play the piano so you gotta keep quiet To hear all this fun; you would not realize That the copper boss thug men are milling outside The copper boss thugs stuck their heads in the door One of them yelled and he screamed, "There's a fire" A lady she hollered, "There's no such a thing; Keep on with your party, there's no such a thing." A few people rushed and there's only a few "It's just the thugs and the scabs fooling you." A man grabbed his daughter and he carried her down But the thugs held the door and he could not get out. And then others followed, about a hundred or more But most everybody remained on the floor The gun thugs, they laughed at their murderous joke And the children were smothered on the stairs by the door. Such a terrible sight I never did see We carried our children back up to their tree The scabs outside still laughed at their spree And the children that died there was seventy-three The piano played a slow funeral tune, And the town was lit up by a cold Christmas moon The parents, they cried and the men, they moaned, "See what your greed for money has done?" Related Lyrics Random lyrics: Cowboy Song, Darkest Hour, Days Are Short, Dead or Alive, Deportees, Deportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos), Doors of Heaven, Drowning Man, Eli, Epilogue, Evangelina, Every Hand In The Land, Face of Time, Fence Post Blues, Garden Song, Gates of Eden, Give It All You Got, Grocery Blues, Guabi, Guabi, Gypsy Davy, Highway In the Wind, Hobos Lullaby, I Could Be Singing, I Ride an Old Paint, I Want To Be Around, Ill Be With You Tonight, Im Going Home, If I Could Only Touch Your Life, If You Would Just Drop By, Introduction, Jamaica Farewell, John Looked Down, Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream, Last To Leave, Last Train, Lay Down Little Doggies, Lightning Bar Blues, Living Like A Legend, Lovesick Blues, Major Blues, Manzanillo Bay, Massachusetts, Meditation (Wave Upon Wave), Miss the Mississippi and You, Moon Song, My Creole Belle, My Front Pages, My Love, Mystic Journey, Now and Then, Other Guthrie Arlo song Lyrics All over the World Lyrics All This Stuff Takes Time Lyrics Anytime Lyrics Buffalo Gals Lyrics Carry Me Over Lyrics Chilling of the Evening Lyrics City of New Orleans Lyrics Coming Into Los Angeles Lyrics Connection Lyrics Coopers Lament Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Arlo Guthrie Lyrics Armada Groove Lyrics Groove Armada Lyrics Armagedda Lyrics Armageddon Lyrics Armageddon Soundtrack Lyrics Armand Van Helden Lyrics Armando Martinez Lyrics Armando Palomas Lyrics Armatrading Joan Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy