《Vanzetti’s Letter》歌词

歌曲： Vanzetti’s Letter

所属专辑：Hunting For Good

歌手： Woody Guthrie

时长： 07:40

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Vanzetti's Letter - Woody Guthrie[00:00:00]

Written by：Woody Guthrie[00:00:01]

The year it is 1927[00:00:02]

An' the day is the third day of may[00:00:06]

Town is the city called Boston an' our address this dark Dedham jail[00:00:11]

To your honor[00:00:18]

The Governor Fuller to the council of Massachussetts state[00:00:19]

We Bartolomo Vanzetti an' Nicola Sacco do say[00:00:26]

Confined to our jail here at Dedham an' under the sentence of death[00:00:34]

We pray you do exercise your powers an' look at the facts of our case[00:00:41]

We do not ask you for a pardon[00:00:48]

For a pardon would admit of our guilt[00:00:51]

Since we are both innocent workers we have no guilt to admit[00:00:55]

We are both born by parents in Italy can't speak English too well[00:01:02]

Our friends of labor are writin' these words back of the barsin our cell[00:01:09]

Our friends say if we speak too plain sir we may turn your feelings away[00:01:17]

Widen these canyons between us but we risk our life to talk plain[00:01:24]

We think sir that each human bein' is in[00:01:31]

Close touch with all of man's kind[00:01:35]

We think sir that each human bein' knows right from the wrong in his mind[00:01:38]

We talk to you here as a man sir even knowing our opinions divide[00:01:46]

We didn't kill the guards at South Braintree nor dream of such a terrible crime[00:01:53]

We call your eye to this fact sir[00:02:00]

We work with our hand and our brain[00:02:03]

These robberies an' killings were done sir by professional bandit men[00:02:07]

Sacco has been a good cutter Mrs Sacco their money has saved[00:02:14]

I Vanzetti l could have saved money but I gave it as fast as received[00:02:21]

I'm a dreamer a speaker an' a writer I fight on the working folks' side[00:02:28]

Sacco is Boston's fastest shoe trimmer and he talks to the husbands and wives[00:02:35]

We hunted your land and we found it hoped we'd find freedom of mind[00:02:41]

Built up your land[00:02:48]

This land of the free an' this is what we come to find[00:02:50]

If we was those killers good Governor we'd not be so dumb and so blind[00:02:55]

To pass out our handbills[00:03:01]

And make workers' speeches out here by the scene of the crime[00:03:03]

Those fifteen thousands of dollars the lawyers and judge said we took[00:03:08]

Do we sir dress up like two gentlemen with that much in our pocketbook[00:03:15]

Our names are on the long list of radicals of the Federal Government sir[00:03:21]

They said that we needed watching as we peddled our literature[00:03:28]

Judge Thayer's mind's made up sir when we walked into the court[00:03:34]

Well he called us anarchistic bastards said lots of other things worse[00:03:40]

They brought people down there to Brockton to look through the bars of our cell[00:03:49]

Made us act out the motions of the killers[00:03:56]

And still not so many could tell[00:03:59]

Before the trial ever started the jury foreman did say[00:04:04]

An' he cussed us an' said damn they well they'd ought to hang anyway[00:04:10]

Our fatal mistake was carryin' our guns about which we had to tell lies[00:04:18]

To keep the police from raiding the homes of workers believing like us[00:04:25]

A labor paper or a picture a letter from a radical friend[00:04:32]

An old cheap gun like you keep around home would torture good women and men[00:04:39]

We all feared deporting and whipping torments to make us confess[00:04:45]

The place where the workers are meeting the house your name and address[00:04:52]

Well the officers said we feared something which they called a consciousness of guilt[00:04:59]

We was afraid of wreckin' more homes and seein' more workers' blood spilt[00:05:06]

Well the very first question they asked us was not about killing the clerks[00:05:13]

But things about our labor movement and how our trade union works[00:05:20]

Oh how could our jury see clearly when the lawyers and judges and cops[00:05:27]

Called us low type Italians said we looked just like regular wops[00:05:34]

Draft dodgers gun packers anarchists these vulgar sounding names[00:05:40]

Blew dust in the eyes of jurors the crowd in the courtroom the same[00:05:47]

We do not believe sir that torture beatings and killings and pains[00:05:53]

Will lift man's eyes to a highest of view an' break his bilbos and chains[00:06:00]

We believe that you must struggle for freedom before your freedom you'll gain[00:06:07]

Freedom from fear sir and greed sir and your freedom to think higher things[00:06:14]

This fight sir is not a new battle we did not make it last night[00:06:21]

'Twas fought by God win Shelly Pisacane Tolstoy and Christ[00:06:27]

It's bigger than the atoms[00:06:33]

An' the sands of the desert planets that roll in the sky[00:06:35]

Till workers get rid of their robbers well[00:06:40]

It's worse sir to live than to die[00:06:43]

Your excellency we're not askin' pardon but askin' to be set free[00:06:46]

With liberty and pride sir and honor and a pardon we will not receive[00:06:52]

A pardon you given to criminals who've broken the laws of the land[00:06:59]

We don't ask you for pardon sir because we are innocent men[00:07:06]

Well if you shake your head[00:07:13]

No dear Governor of course our doom it is sealed[00:07:14]

We hold up our heads like two sons of men[00:07:19]

Seven years in these cells of steel[00:07:22]

We walk down this corridor to death sir like workers have walked it before[00:07:26]

But we'll work in our working class struggle if we live a thousand lives more[00:07:33]