Ludlow Massacre-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Ludlow Massacre] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:The Woody Guthrie Story (The Music)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ludlow Massacre - Woody Guthrie [00:03.27]It was early springtime when the strike was on [00:07.46] [00:08.36]They drove us miners out of doors [00:12.22]Out from the houses that the Company owned [00:16.06]We moved into tents up at old Ludlow [00:20.59] [00:22.85]I was worried bad about my children [00:26.53] [00:27.09]Soldiers guarding the railroad bridge [00:30.67] [00:31.31]Every once in a while a bullet would fly [00:34.49] [00:35.44]Kick up gravel under my feet [00:38.99] [00:40.09]We were so afraid you kill our children [00:43.52] [00:44.17]Dug us a cave that was seven foot deep [00:47.62] [00:48.19]Carried our young ones and pregnant women [00:52.17] [00:52.93]Down inside the cave to sleep [00:56.29] [00:58.55]That very night your soldiers waited [01:02.58]Until all us miners were asleep [01:05.61] [01:06.12]You snuck around our little tent town [01:09.38] [01:09.93]Soaked our tents with your kerosene [01:13.06] [01:14.77]You struck a match and in the blaze that started [01:18.02] [01:18.52]You pulled the triggers of your gatling guns [01:22.28]I made a run for the children but the fire wall stopped me [01:27.58] [01:28.25]Thirteen children died from your guns [01:32.51] [01:33.64]I carried my blanket to a wire fence corner [01:37.60]Watched the fire till the blaze died down [01:41.08] [01:42.05]I helped some people drag their belongings [01:45.92]While your bullets killed us all around [01:49.50] [01:50.96]I never will forget the look on the faces [01:54.82]Of the men and women that awful day [01:58.24] [01:59.38]When we stood around to preach their funerals [02:03.41]And lay the corpses of the dead away [02:06.93] [02:08.98]We told the Colorado Governor to call the President [02:13.41] [02:14.76]Tell him call off his National Guard [02:18.44] [02:19.56]But the National Guard belonged to the Governor [02:23.61]So he didn't try so very hard [02:27.72] [02:28.98]Our women from Trinidad they hauled some potatoes [02:32.93] [02:33.50]Up to Walsenburg in a little cart [02:36.55] [02:37.19]They sold their potatoes and brought some guns back [02:41.08] [02:41.73]And put a gun in every hand [02:46.29] [02:47.63]The state soldiers jumped us in a wire fence corners [02:52.30]They not know we had these guns [02:55.35] [02:56.64]And the Red-neck Miners mowed down these troopers [03:01.10]You should seen [03:03.46]That poor boys run [03:04.86] [03:06.39]We took some cement and walled cave up [03:09.97] [03:10.82]Where you killed these thirteen children inside [03:14.77] [03:15.94]I said "God bless the Mine Workers' Union " [03:20.71] [03:21.62]And I hung my head and cried