Ludlow Massacre-Woody Guthrie/Cisco Houston

[ti:Ludlow Massacre] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:American Icon] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ludlow Massacre - Woody Guthrie/Cisco Houston [00:03.26]It was early springtime when the strike was on [00:07.45] [00:08.29]They drove us miners out of doors [00:12.14]Out from the houses that the Company owned [00:15.99]We moved into tents up at old Ludlow [00:21.14] [00:22.73]I was worried bad about my children [00:26.47] [00:27.17]Soldiers guarding the railroad bridge [00:31.17]Every once in a while a bullet would fly [00:34.54] [00:35.45]Kick up gravel under my feet [00:38.63] [00:39.97]We were so afraid you'd kill our children [00:43.47] [00:44.20]Dug us a cave that was seven foot deep [00:48.19]Carried our young ones and pregnant women [00:52.20] [00:53.08]Down inside the cave to sleep [00:56.49] [00:58.57]That very night your soldiers waited [01:02.48]Until all us miners were asleep [01:05.55] [01:06.23]You snuck around our little tent town [01:10.08]Soaked our tents with your kerosene [01:13.19] [01:14.68]You struck a match and in the blaze that started [01:18.46]You pulled the triggers of your gatling guns [01:22.28]I made a run for the children [01:25.55]But the fire wall stopped me [01:28.21]Thirteen children died from your guns [01:32.28] [01:33.36]I carried my blanket to a wire fence corner [01:37.68]Watched the fire till the blaze died down [01:40.86] [01:41.82]I helped some people drag their belongings [01:45.82]While your bullets killed us all around [01:49.38] [01:50.82]I never will forget the look on the faces [01:54.78]Of the men and women that awful day [01:58.35] [01:59.42]When we stood around to preach their funerals [02:03.24]And lay the corpses of the dead away [02:07.10] [02:09.00]We told the Colorado Governor [02:11.92]To phone the President [02:13.33] [02:14.73]Tell him to call off his National Guard [02:18.62] [02:19.65]But the National Guard belonged to the Governor [02:23.45]So he didn't try so very hard [02:27.60] [02:28.98]Our women from Trinidad [02:31.27]They hauled some potatoes [02:33.36]Up to Walsenburg in a little cart [02:37.15]They sold their potatoes [02:39.33]And brought some guns back [02:41.76]And they put a gun in every hand [02:45.83] [02:47.59]The state soldiers jumped us [02:50.17]In a wire fence corners [02:52.13]They did not know that we had these guns [02:55.53] [02:56.56]And the Red neck Miners [02:58.91]Mowed down these troopers [03:00.87]You should have seen those poor boys run [03:05.00] [03:06.37]We took some cement and walled that cave up [03:10.65]Where you killed these thirteen children inside [03:14.90] [03:15.91]I said "God bless the Mine Workers' Union " [03:20.99] [03:21.56]Then I hung my head and cried