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