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<pre><font size='+2'>THE 1913 MASSACRE lyrics WOODY GUTHRIE</font><br>                    The 1913 Massacre<br />
                         (Woody Guthrie)<br />
<br />
Take a trip with me in nineteen thirteen<br />
To Calumet, Michigan, in the copper country.<br />
I`ll take you to a place called Italian Hall<br />
Where the miners are having their big Christmas ball.<br />
<br />
I`ll take you through a door, and up a high stairs.<br />
Singing and dancing is heard everywhere,<br />
I will let you shake hands with the people you see<br />
And watch the kids dance round that big Christmas tree.<br />
<br />
You ask about work and you ask about pay;<br />
They`ll tell you that they make less than a dollar a day,<br />
Working the copper claims, risking their lives,<br />
So it`s fun to spend Christmas with children and wives.<br />
<br />
There`s talking and laughing and songs in the air,<br />
And the spirit of Christmas is there everywhere,<br />
Before you know it, you`re friends with us all<br />
And you`re dancing around and around in the hall.<br />
<br />
Well, a little girl sits down by the Christmas tree lights<br />
To play the piano, so you gotta keep quiet.<br />
To hear all this fun you would not realize<br />
That the copper-boss thug-men are milling outside.<br />
<br />
The copper-boss thugs stuck their heads in the door<br />
One of them yelled and he screamed, `There`s a fire!`<br />
A lady, she hollered, `There`s no such a thing!<br />
Keep on with your party, there`s no such a thing.`<br />
<br />
A few people rushed, and it was only a few<br />
`It`s only the thugs and the scabs fooling you.`<br />
A man grabbed his daughter and carried her down<br />
But the thugs held the door and he could not get out.<br />
<br />
And then others followed, a hundred or more<br />
But most everybody remained on the floor.<br />
The gun-thugs they laughed at their murderous joke,<br />
While the children were smothered on the stair by the door.<br />
<br />
Such a terrible sight I never did see<br />
We carried our children back up to their tree.<br />
The scabs outside still laughed at their spree<br />
And the children that died there were seventy-three.<br />
<br />
The piano played a slow funeral tune<br />
And the town was lit up by a cold Christmas moon,<br />
The parents they cried and the miners they moaned,<br />
`See what your greed for money has done.`<br />
<br />
Note: In Calumet, Michigan, in 1913 hired copper company thugs<br />
broke up a striker`s Christmas party by shouting `fire`, and then<br />
barring the door. In the panic hat ensued, 73 children were<br />
smothered to death.<br />
@union @work @death @Xmas<br />
filename[ MASS1913<br />
play.exe MASS1913<br />
RG<br />
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The 1913 Massacre
(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
Where the miners are having their big Christmas ball.

I`ll take you through a door, and up a high stairs.
Singing and dancing is heard everywhere,
I will let you shake hands with the people you see
And watch the kids dance round that big Christmas tree.

You ask about work and you ask about pay;
They`ll tell you that they make less than a dollar a day,
Working the copper claims, risking their lives,
So it`s fun to spend Christmas with children and wives.

There`s talking and laughing and songs in the air,
And the spirit of Christmas is there everywhere,
Before you know it, you`re friends with us all
And you`re dancing around and around in the hall.

Well, 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 it was only a few
`It`s only the thugs and the scabs fooling you.`
A man grabbed his daughter and carried her down
But the thugs held the door and he could not get out.

And then others followed, a hundred or more
But most everybody remained on the floor.
The gun-thugs they laughed at their murderous joke,
While the children were smothered on the stair 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 were 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 miners they moaned,
`See what your greed for money has done.`

Note: In Calumet, Michigan, in 1913 hired copper company thugs
broke up a striker`s Christmas party by shouting `fire`, and then
barring the door. In the panic hat ensued, 73 children were
smothered to death.
@union @work @death @Xmas
filename[ MASS1913
play.exe MASS1913
RG
===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY

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