1913 Massacre-Ramblin' Jack Elliott

[ti:1913 Massacre] [ar:Ramblin' Jack Elliott] [al:Fabulous Creature] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.17]1913 Massacre - Ramblin' Jack Elliott [00:01.12]Written by：Woody Guthrie [00:01.88] [00:03.69]Take a trip with me in nineteen thirteen [00:08.29] [00:09.82]To Calumet Michigan in the copper country [00:13.39] [00:15.46]I'll take you to a place called italian hall [00:21.99]And the miners are having their big christmas ball [00:27.24] [00:30.41]I'll take you in a door and up a high stairs [00:34.17]Singing and dancing is heard everywhere [00:37.80] [00:38.77]I'll let you shake hands with the people you see [00:44.22] [00:44.84]And watch the kids dance around the big christmas tree [00:49.36] [00:53.61]There's talking and laughing and songs in the air [00:57.16]And the spirit of christmas is there everywhere [01:00.98]Before you know it you're friends with us all [01:06.40]And you're dancing around and around in the hall [01:11.60] [01:14.89]You ask about work and you ask about the pay [01:18.21]They'll tell you they make less than a dollar a day [01:22.14]Working their copper claims risking their lives [01:27.42]So it's fun to spend christmas with children and wives [01:33.04] [01:35.89]A little girl sits down by the christmas tree lights [01:39.13]To play the piano so you gotta keep quiet [01:42.68]To hear all this fun you would not realize [01:47.45]That the copper boss thug men are milling outside [01:52.55] [01:56.01]The copper boss thugs stuck their heads in the door [01:58.63] [01:59.71]One of them yelled and he screamed there's a fire [02:03.17] [02:03.82]A lady she hollered there's no such a thing [02:08.08]Keep on with your party there's no such a thing [02:13.26] [02:17.01]A few people rushed and there's only a few [02:19.34] [02:20.29]It's just the thugs and the scabs fooling you [02:23.67] [02:24.50]A man grabbed his daughter and he carried her down [02:27.95]But the thugs held the door and he could not get out [02:33.17] [02:36.76]And then others followed a hundred or more [02:39.59] [02:40.38]But most everybody remained on the floor [02:44.04]The gun thugs they laughed at their murderous joke [02:48.47]And the children were smothered on the stairs by the door [02:53.78] [02:57.48]Such a terrible sight I never did see [03:00.71]We carried our children back up to their tree [03:04.55]The scabs outside still laughed at their spree [03:13.01]And the children that died there was seventy three [03:18.22] [03:22.92]The piano played a slow funeral tune [03:26.28]And the town was lit up by a cold christmas moon [03:29.84] [03:31.13]The parents they cried and the miners they moaned [03:36.51] [03:38.05]See what your greed for money has done