《1913 Massacre》歌词

歌曲： 1913 Massacre

所属专辑：The Essential Collection

歌手： Woody Guthrie&The Almanac

时长： 03:34

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1913 Massacre (1913年大屠杀) - Woody Guthrie/Sonny Terry (桑尼·特里)[00:00:00]

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

To Calumet Michigan in the copper country [00:00:10]

I will take you to a place called Italian Hall [00:00:15]

Where the miners are having their big Christmas ball [00:00:21]

I will take you in a door and up a high stairs [00:00:28]

Singing and dancing is heard everywhere [00:00:33]

I will let you shake hands with the people you see [00:00:37]

And watch the kids dance around the big Christmas tree [00:00:43]

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

They'll tell you they make less than a dollar a day [00:00:56]

Working the copper claims risking their lives [00:01:02]

So it's fun to spend Christmas with children and wives [00:01:06]

There's talking and laughing and songs in the air [00:01:13]

And the spirit of Christmas is there everywhere [00:01:17]

Before you know it you're friends with us all [00:01:22]

And you're dancing around and around in the hall [00:01:27]

Well a little girl sits down by the Christmas tree lights [00:01:35]

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 are milling outside [00:01:46]

The copper boss' thugs stuck their heads in the door [00:01:52]

One of them yelled and he screamed "there's a fire "[00:01:56]

A lady she hollered "there's no such a thing [00:02:01]

Keep on with your party there's no such thing "[00:02:04]

A few people rushed and it was only a few [00:02:11]

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

A man grabbed his daughter and carried her down [00:02:19]

But the thugs held the door and he could not get out [00:02:22]

And then others followed a hundred or more [00:02:29]

But most everybody remained on the floor [00:02:33]

The gun thugs they laughed at their murderous joke [00:02:36]

While the children were smothered on the stairs by the door [00:02:40]

Such a terrible sight I never did see [00:02:47]

We carried our children back up to their tree [00:02:51]

The scabs outside still laughed at their spree [00:02:55]

And the children that died there were seventy-three [00:03:01]

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

And the town was lit up by a cold Christmas moon [00:03:13]

The parents they cried and the miners they moaned [00:03:18]

"See what your greed for money has done "[00:03:23]