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The 1913 Massacre - Woody Guthrie
Take a trip with me in 1913

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 in a door
And up a high stairs

Singing and dancing is
Heard everywhere

I'll 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 they
Make less 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

Hey 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'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
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 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"