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Verse 1
Take (C major) a (D major) (A minor) (D major) (C major)
trip with me in 1913
Up to (F major) Calumet, Michigan,
in the copper country (C major)
Take you to a place called Itali (F major) an Hall
Where the miners are (G major) hav
in' their big Christmas ball
(C major) Take you in the door
and up the high stairs
(F major) Singin' and dancin' are heard everywhere
(C major) It lets you shake hands
with (F major) the people you see
Watch the children dancin' around (G major)
their big Christmas tree (C major)
Now there's laughing and talking
and psalms in the air
(F major) The spirit of Christmas
is there everywhere
(C major) And before you know it,
you're friend (F major) s with us all.
And you're dancing around
(G major) and around in the hall. (C major)
Now you ask about work
and you ask about the pay,
they (F major) tell you they make less
than a dollar a day (C major)
working their copper claims
(F major) an d risking their lives
so it's fun to spend Christ (G major) mas
with children and wives (C major)
A little girl sits down
by the Christmas tree lights
(F major) To play the piano
so you've got to keep quiet (C major)
To hear all this fun
you would not (F major) realize
That the copper boss thug (G major) men
are millin' out (C major) side
Now the copper boss thug
stuck their heads in the door
(F major) One of them screamed and he yelled,
there's a (C major) fire
The lady she hollered,
there's (F major) no such a thing
Keep on with your (G major) party,
there's no such thing
(C major) But a few of us rushed
and it was only a few
(F major) It's just the thugs
and the scabs fooling (C major) you
A man grabbed his daughter
and he (F major) carried her down
But the thugs hailed the door
(G major) and they could not get out
(C major) And many folks followed,
a hundred or more
But (F major) most everybody
remained on the floor (C major)
The thugs, they laughed at
their (F major) murderous joke
While the children were smothered (G major)
on the stairs by the (C major) door
Such a horrible sight I never did see
We (F major) carried our children
back up to their tree (C major)
Scabs outside still (F major) laughed at their spree
While the children had died, (G major)
there were seventy -three. (C major) (D major) (D minor) (D major) (C major)
Now the piano played a slow funeral tune
The (F major) town was lit up
by a cold Christmas moon (C major)
Parents they wept
and the miners (F major) they moaned
See what your creed (G major) for money has done. (C major)
1913 Massacre
Ethan Daniel Davidson
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