《1913 Massacre》歌词

歌曲： 1913 Massacre

所属专辑：Xmas Angel

歌手： Ramblin’ Jack Elliott

时长： 03:46

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1913 Massacre - Ramblin' Jack Elliott[00:00:00]

Written by：Woody Guthrie[00:00:01]

Take a trip with me in nineteen thirteen[00:00:03]

To Calumet Michigan in the copper country[00:00:09]

I'll take you to a place called italian hall[00:00:15]

And the miners are having their big christmas ball[00:00:21]

I'll take you in a door and up a high stairs[00:00:30]

Singing and dancing is heard everywhere[00:00:34]

I'll let you shake hands with the people you see[00:00:38]

And watch the kids dance around the big christmas tree[00:00:44]

There's talking and laughing and songs in the air[00:00:53]

And the spirit of christmas is there everywhere[00:00:57]

Before you know it you're friends with us all[00:01:00]

And you're dancing around and around in the hall[00:01:06]

You ask about work and you ask about the pay[00:01:14]

They'll tell you they make less than a dollar a day[00:01:18]

Working their copper claims risking their lives[00:01:22]

So it's fun to spend christmas with children and wives[00:01:27]

A little girl sits down by the christmas tree lights[00:01:35]

To play the piano so you gotta keep quiet[00:01:39]

To hear all this fun you would not realize[00:01:42]

That the copper boss thug men are milling outside[00:01:47]

The copper boss thugs stuck their heads in the door[00:01:56]

One of them yelled and he screamed there's a fire[00:01:59]

A lady she hollered there's no such a thing[00:02:03]

Keep on with your party there's no such a thing[00:02:08]

A few people rushed and there's only a few[00:02:17]

It's just the thugs and the scabs fooling you[00:02:20]

A man grabbed his daughter and he carried her down[00:02:24]

But the thugs held the door and he could not get out[00:02:27]

And then others followed a hundred or more[00:02:36]

But most everybody remained on the floor[00:02:40]

The gun thugs they laughed at their murderous joke[00:02:44]

And the children were smothered on the stairs by the door[00:02:48]

Such a terrible sight I never did see[00:02:57]

We carried our children back up to their tree[00:03:00]

The scabs outside still laughed at their spree[00:03:04]

And the children that died there was seventy three[00:03:13]

The piano played a slow funeral tune[00:03:22]

And the town was lit up by a cold christmas moon[00:03:26]

The parents they cried and the miners they moaned[00:03:31]

See what your greed for money has done[00:03:38]