1913 Massacre
(专辑: Hobo's Lullaby - 1972)
Take a
trip with me in nineteen thirteen To Calumet, Michigan in the
copper country I'll take you to a
place called Italian Hall And the
miners are having their big Christmas ball I'll take you in a
door and up a
high stairs Singing and dancing is heard ev'rywhere I'll let you shake hands with the
people you see And watch the
kids dance 'round the
big Christmas tree. There's talking and laughing and songs in the
air And the
spirit of Christmas is there ev'rywhere Before you know it you're friends with us all And you're dancing around and around in the
hall You ask about work and you ask about pay They'll tell you they make less than a
dollar a
day Working their copper claims, risking their lives So it's fun to spend Christmas with children and wives. A
little girl sits down by the
Christmas tree lights To play the
piano so you gotta keep quiet To hear all this fun; you would not realize That the
copper boss thug men are milling outside The
copper boss thugs stuck their heads in the
door One of them yelled and he screamed, "There's a
fire" A
lady she hollered, "There's no such a
thing; Keep on with your party, there's no such a
thing." A
few people rushed and there's only a
few "It's just the
thugs and the
scabs fooling you." A
man grabbed his daughter and he carried her down But the
thugs held the
door and he could not get out. And then others followed, about a
hundred or more But most everybody remained on the
floor The
gun thugs, they laughed at their murderous joke And the
children were smothered on the
stairs by the
door. Such a
terrible sight I
never did see We carried our children back up to their tree The
scabs outside still laughed at their spree And the
children that died there was seventy-three The
piano played a
slow funeral tune, And the
town was lit up by a
cold Christmas moon The
parents, they cried and the
men, they moaned, "See what your greed for money has done?"