1913 Massacre-Woody Guthrie

[ti:1913 Massacre] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Backup the Best of Woody Guthrie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]1913 Massacre (1913年大屠杀) - Woody Guthrie [00:05.75]Take a trip with me in 1913 [00:08.41] [00:10.59]To Calumet Michigan in the copper country [00:13.17] [00:15.37]I will take you to a place called Italian Hall [00:18.12] [00:20.82]Where the miners are having their big Christmas ball [00:26.29] [00:28.92]I will take you in a door and up a high stairs [00:31.94] [00:33.42]Singing and dancing is heard everywhere [00:36.00] [00:37.91]I will let you shake hands with the people you see [00:40.48] [00:43.41]And watch the kids dance around the big Christmas tree [00:48.81] [00:52.17]You ask about work and you ask about pay [00:54.86] [00:56.87]They'll tell you they make less than a dollar a day [00:59.71] [01:02.00]Working the copper claims risking their lives [01:06.09]So it's fun to spend Christmas with children and wives [01:11.16] [01:13.69]There's talking and laughing and songs in the air [01:16.84] [01:17.62]And the spirit of Christmas is there everywhere [01:20.33] [01:22.58]Before you know it you're friends with us all [01:25.57] [01:27.21]And you're dancing around and around in the hall [01:32.77] [01:35.29]Well a little girl sits down by the Christmas tree lights [01:38.49]To play the piano so you gotta keep quiet [01:41.56]To hear all this fun you would not realize [01:44.30] [01:46.24]That the copper boss' thug men are milling outside [01:50.32] [01:52.81]The copper boss' thugs stuck their heads in the door [01:55.73] [01:56.95]One of them yelled and he screamed "there's a fire " [01:59.72] [02:01.16]A lady she hollered "there's no such a thing [02:04.03] [02:05.05]Keep on with your party there's no such thing " [02:09.33] [02:11.21]A few people rushed and it was only a few [02:14.51]"It's just the thugs and the scabs fooling you " [02:17.15] [02:19.08]A man grabbed his daughter and carried her down [02:21.70] [02:22.92]But the thugs held the door and he could not get out [02:28.23] [02:30.03]And then others followed a hundred or more [02:33.19]But most everybody remained on the floor [02:35.74] [02:37.07]The gun thugs they laughed at their murderous joke [02:39.75] [02:40.75]While the children were smothered on the stairs by the door [02:45.55] [02:47.29]Such a terrible sight I never did see [02:50.07] [02:51.24]We carried our children back up to their tree [02:54.10] [02:55.96]The scabs outside still laughed at their spree [02:58.99] [03:01.65]And the children that died there were seventy-three [03:06.76] [03:08.84]The piano played a slow funeral tune [03:11.60] [03:13.33]And the town was lit up by a cold Christmas moon [03:16.34] [03:18.28]The parents they cried and the miners they moaned [03:23.45] [03:25.52]"See what your greed for money has done "