Ludlow Massacre-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Ludlow Massacre] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:The Machinest] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ludlow Massacre - Woody Guthrie [00:04.26]It was early springtime when the strike was on [00:09.03]They drove us miners out of doors [00:12.88]Out from the houses that the Company owned [00:16.66]We moved into tents up at old Ludlow [00:23.48]I was worried bad about my children [00:27.72]Soldiers guarding the railroad bridge [00:31.96]Every once in a while a bullet would fly [00:36.06]Kick up gravel under my feet [00:40.75]We were so afraid you would kill our children [00:45.01]We dug us a cave that was seven foot deep [00:48.83]Carried our young ones and pregnant women [00:53.54]Down inside the cave to sleep [00:59.22]That very night your soldiers waited [01:01.57] [01:03.26]Until all us miners were asleep [01:05.47] [01:06.74]You snuck around our little tent town [01:10.76]Soaked our tents with your kerosene [01:15.29]You struck a match and in the blaze that started [01:19.21]You pulled the triggers of your gatling guns [01:23.08]I made a run for the children but the fire wall stopped me [01:29.01]Thirteen children died from your guns [01:34.30]I carried my blanket to a wire fence corner [01:37.03] [01:38.24]Watched the fire till the blaze died down [01:42.66]I helped some people drag their belongings [01:45.14] [01:46.47]While your bullets killed us all around [01:51.56]I never will forget the look on the faces [01:55.47]Of the men and women that awful day [02:00.12]When we stood around to preach their funerals [02:04.03]And lay the corpses of the dead away [02:09.62]We told the Colorado Governor to call the President [02:15.37]Tell him to call off his National Guard [02:18.16] [02:20.28]But the National Guard belonged to the Governor [02:24.34]So he didn't try so very hard [02:27.34] [02:29.58]Our women from Trinidad they hauled some potatoes [02:34.48]Up to Walsenburg in a little cart [02:37.82]They sold their potatoes and brought some guns back [02:42.42]And they put a gun in every hand [02:48.48]The state soldiers jumped us in a wire fence corners [02:53.09]They did not know we had these guns [02:55.43] [02:57.45]And the Red-neck Miners mowed down these troopers [03:01.70]You should have seen those poor boys run [03:07.07]We took some cement and walled that cave up [03:11.45]Where you killed these thirteen children inside [03:16.55]I said "God bless the Mine Workers' Union " [03:22.26]And then I hung my head and cried