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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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It was early springtime
and the strike was on
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They drove us miners out of our homes
Out of the houses that the
company owned
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Into the tents of the little Ludlow
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We were worried bad about our children
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State troopers guarded
Every once in a while a bullet would fly
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Kick up gravel around our feet
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We were so afraid that you'd
kill our children
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That we dug a cave that was
Took the children and
the pregnant women
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Down inside the cave to sleep
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It was late that night the soldiers waited
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Till all us miners were asleep
They crept around one little camp town
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And soaked our tents in kerosene
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They struck a match and the
blaze it started
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They pulled the triggers of their Gatling guns
I made a run for the children but the
firewall stopped me
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Thirteen children died from their
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Verse 6
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I never will forget
the looks on the faces
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Of the men and women
As they stood around
to preach the funeral
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And lay the corpses of the dead away
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The women from Trinidad
took some potatoes
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Up to Wallensburg in a little cart
They sold the potatoes and
brought some guns back
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Put a gun in every hand
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We asked the governor to phone
up the president
Ask him call off the National Guard
But the National Guard belonged
to the governor
I guess he didn't try very hard
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Late one night the troopers charged us
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They didn't know that we had guns
The red necked miners shot
them troops down
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You should have seen those
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poor boys run
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and walled the cave up
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Where the thirteen little children died
I thanked God for the Mine Workers Union
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And then I hung my head and cried
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