The 1913 Massacre-Woody Guthrie

[ti:The 1913 Massacre] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:The Woody Guthrie Story (The Music)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The 1913 Massacre - Woody Guthrie [00:05.69]Take a trip with me in 1913 [00:08.90] [00:10.57]To Calumet Michigan [00:12.15]In the copper country [00:14.85] [00:15.37]I'll take you to a place [00:17.01]Called Italian Hall [00:20.97]And the miners are having [00:24.97]Their big Christmas Ball [00:27.26] [00:28.88]I'll take in a door [00:30.43]And up a high stairs [00:32.69] [00:33.34]Singing and dancing is [00:34.87]Heard everywhere [00:36.61] [00:37.88]I'll let you shake hands [00:39.34]With the people you see [00:42.59] [00:43.25]And watch the kids dance [00:47.36]Round that big Christmas tree [00:50.04] [00:52.14]You ask about work and you ask about pay [00:56.28] [00:56.95]They'll tell you they [00:57.88]Make less a dollar a day [01:01.10] [01:02.01]Working the copper claims [01:03.64]Risking their lives [01:06.19]So it's fun to spend Christmas [01:09.64]With children and wives [01:11.93] [01:13.71]There's talking and laughing [01:15.16]And songs in the air [01:17.32]And the spirit of Christmas [01:19.25]Is there everywhere [01:22.05] [01:22.59]Before you know it [01:24.14]You're friends with us all [01:27.31]And you're dancing around [01:31.38]And around in the hall [01:33.46] [01:35.29]Hey little girl sits down [01:36.76]By the Christmas tree lights [01:38.43]To play the piano so you gotta keep quiet [01:41.75]To hear all this fun you would not realize [01:45.41] [01:46.12]That the copper boss thug men [01:49.47]Are milling outside [01:51.39] [01:52.84]The copper boss thugs stuck [01:54.35]Their heads in the door [01:56.30] [01:56.91]One of them yelled and he screamed [01:58.79]"There's a fire" [02:00.57] [02:01.22]A lady she hollered [02:02.71]"There's no such a thing [02:05.04]Keep on with your party [02:08.21]There's no such a thing" [02:10.38] [02:11.21]A few people rushed and [02:12.97]It's only a few [02:14.61]"It's just the thugs and [02:16.13]The scabs fooling you" [02:18.14] [02:19.08]A man grabbed his daughter [02:20.70]And he carried her down [02:23.03]But the thugs held the door [02:26.77]And he could not get out [02:28.77] [02:30.09]And then others followed [02:31.66]A hundred or more [02:33.28]But most everybody remained [02:35.12]On the floor [02:37.00]The gun thugs they laughed [02:38.57]At their murderous joke [02:40.85]And the children were smothered [02:44.19]On the stairs by the door [02:46.08] [02:47.25]Such a terrible sight [02:48.89]I never did see [02:51.29]We carried our children [02:52.73]Back up to their tree [02:54.78] [02:55.98]The scabs outside still [02:57.72]Laughed at their spree [03:00.56] [03:01.73]And the children that died [03:05.47]There were seventy three [03:07.94] [03:08.84]The piano played a slow funeral tune [03:12.48] [03:13.39]And the town was lit up [03:14.87]By a cold Christmas moon [03:17.66] [03:18.31]The parents they cried and [03:19.94]The miners they moaned [03:23.39] [03:25.40]"See what your greed for money has done"