1913 Massacre-Woody Guthrie

[ti:1913 Massacre] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:50 Greatest Woody Guthrie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]1913 Massacre - Woody Guthrie [00:05.78]Take a trip with me in 1913 [00:09.04] [00:10.67]To Calumet Michigan in the copper country [00:14.72] [00:15.42]I will take you to a place called Italian Hall [00:21.25]Where the miners are having their big Christmas ball [00:27.12] [00:28.98]I will take you in a door and up a high stairs [00:32.50] [00:33.53]Singing and dancing is heard everywhere [00:37.17] [00:37.94]I will let you shake hands with the people you see [00:42.95] [00:43.70]And watch the kids dance around the big Christmas tree [00:51.35] [00:52.37]You ask about work and you ask about pay [00:56.91]They'll tell you they make less than a dollar a day [01:00.35] [01:02.08]Working the copper claims risking their lives [01:05.42] [01:06.19]So it's fun to spend Christmas with children and wives [01:12.07] [01:13.73]There's talking and laughing and songs in the air [01:16.69] [01:17.36]And the spirit of Christmas is there everywhere [01:22.61]Before you know it you're friends with us all [01:27.39]And you're dancing around and around in the hall [01:33.14] [01:35.33]Well a little girl sits down by the Christmas tree lights [01:38.50]To play the piano so you gotta keep quiet [01:41.59]To hear all this fun you would not realize [01:44.11] [01:46.27]That the copper boss' thug men are milling outside [01:50.48] [01:52.82]The copper boss' thugs stuck their heads in the door [01:56.18] [01:56.92]One of them yelled and he screamed "there's a fire " [01:59.75] [02:01.26]A lady she hollered "there's no such a thing [02:04.21] [02:04.99]Keep on with your party there's no such thing " [02:09.67] [02:11.21]A few people rushed and it was only a few [02:14.46]"It's just the thugs and the scabs fooling you " [02:17.61] [02:19.04]A man grabbed his daughter and carried her down [02:22.12] [02:22.93]But the thugs held the door and he could not get out [02:28.25] [02:29.98]And then others followed a hundred or more [02:33.10]But most everybody remained on the floor [02:35.89] [02:36.95]The gun thugs they laughed at their murderous joke [02:40.84]While the children were smothered on the stairs by the door [02:46.06] [02:47.28]Such a terrible sight I never did see [02:50.28] [02:51.18]We carried our children back up to their tree [02:55.15] [02:55.82]The scabs outside still laughed at their spree [03:01.73]And the children that died there were seventy-three [03:07.56] [03:08.67]The piano played a slow funeral tune [03:11.53] [03:13.26]And the town was lit up by a cold Christmas moon [03:17.00] [03:18.18]The parents they cried and the miners they moaned [03:23.64]"See what your greed for money has done "