Tonart: D major
Verse 1
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It was early springtime
and the strike was on
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They moved us miners out of doors,
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out from the houses that
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We moved into tents up at Old Ludlow
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I was worried bad about
my children,
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soldiers guarding the railroad bridge.
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Every once in a while a bullet would fly,
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kick up gravel under my feet.
I was so afraid you'd kill my children,
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dug us a cave that was seven
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took our young ones and
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down inside this cave to sleep.
That very night you soldiers waited
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till all us miners was asleep.
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You snuck around our little tent town
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and you soaked our tent
You struck a match and a
blaze had started
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You pulled a trigger, shoved a gatling gun
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I made a run for the children
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But the firewall stopped me
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13 children died from your guns
I drag my blanket to a wire fence corner
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I watch the fire till the blaze dies down
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I help some people drag
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While your bullets killed us all around
Never will forget the look on the faces
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of the men and women that awful day
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As we stood around to
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and lay the corpses of the dead away
Told the Colorado governor
to phone the president
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And tell him call off his National Guard
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But the National Guard
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belonged to the governor
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So he didn't try so very hard
Our women from Trinidad,
they hauled some potatoes
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Hopped a waltzing bird in a little cart
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Sold the potatoes
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and they brought some guns back
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And they put a gun in every hand
State soldiers jumped us
in the wire fence corners
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They did not know that we had these guns
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And the redneck miners
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mowed down them troopers
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You should have seen them poor boys run
We took some cement
and walled the cave up
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Where he killed his thirteen children inside
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I said, God bless the Mine Workers Union
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And then I'd hold my head and cry
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