《The 1913 Massacre》歌词

歌曲： The 1913 Massacre

所属专辑：The Woody Guthrie Story (The Music)

歌手： Woody Guthrie

时长： 03:35

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The 1913 Massacre - Woody Guthrie[00:00:00]

Take a trip with me in 1913[00:00:05]

To Calumet Michigan [00:00:10]

In the copper country[00:00:12]

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

Called Italian Hall[00:00:17]

And the miners are having[00:00:20]

Their big Christmas Ball[00:00:24]

I'll take in a door[00:00:28]

And up a high stairs[00:00:30]

Singing and dancing is[00:00:33]

Heard everywhere[00:00:34]

I'll let you shake hands[00:00:37]

With the people you see[00:00:39]

And watch the kids dance[00:00:43]

Round that big Christmas tree[00:00:47]

You ask about work and you ask about pay[00:00:52]

They'll tell you they[00:00:56]

Make less a dollar a day[00:00:57]

Working the copper claims [00:01:02]

Risking their lives[00:01:03]

So it's fun to spend Christmas[00:01:06]

With children and wives[00:01:09]

There's talking and laughing[00:01:13]

And songs in the air[00:01:15]

And the spirit of Christmas[00:01:17]

Is there everywhere[00:01:19]

Before you know it [00:01:22]

You're friends with us all[00:01:24]

And you're dancing around[00:01:27]

And around in the hall[00:01:31]

Hey little girl sits down[00:01:35]

By the Christmas tree lights[00:01:36]

To play the piano so you gotta keep quiet[00:01:38]

To hear all this fun you would not realize[00:01:41]

That the copper boss thug men[00:01:46]

Are milling outside[00:01:49]

The copper boss thugs stuck[00:01:52]

Their heads in the door[00:01:54]

One of them yelled and he screamed [00:01:56]

"There's a fire"[00:01:58]

A lady she hollered [00:02:01]

"There's no such a thing[00:02:02]

Keep on with your party [00:02:05]

There's no such a thing"[00:02:08]

A few people rushed and[00:02:11]

It's only a few[00:02:12]

"It's just the thugs and[00:02:14]

The scabs fooling you"[00:02:16]

A man grabbed his daughter[00:02:19]

And he carried her down[00:02:20]

But the thugs held the door[00:02:23]

And he could not get out[00:02:26]

And then others followed [00:02:30]

A hundred or more[00:02:31]

But most everybody remained[00:02:33]

On the floor[00:02:35]

The gun thugs they laughed[00:02:37]

At their murderous joke[00:02:38]

And the children were smothered[00:02:40]

On the stairs by the door[00:02:44]

Such a terrible sight[00:02:47]

I never did see[00:02:48]

We carried our children[00:02:51]

Back up to their tree[00:02:52]

The scabs outside still[00:02:55]

Laughed at their spree[00:02:57]

And the children that died[00:03:01]

There were seventy three[00:03:05]

The piano played a slow funeral tune[00:03:08]

And the town was lit up[00:03:13]

By a cold Christmas moon[00:03:14]

The parents they cried and[00:03:18]

The miners they moaned[00:03:19]

"See what your greed for money has done"[00:03:25]