1913 Massacre chords by George Mann

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Take a trip with me
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In 1913, I'll carry you to Michigan
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and the Capricorn Tree
I'll take you to a place
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called Italian Hall
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Where the miners are having
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their big Christmas ball
I'll take you in a door
and up a high stairs
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Singing and dancing
is heard everywhere
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Let you shake hands with
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the people you see
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And watch the kids dance
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around the big Christmas street.
You ask about work and
you ask about pay.
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They tell you they make less
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than a dollar a day.
Working their copper claims,
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risking their lives.
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So it's fun to spend Christmas
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with children and wives.
There's talking and laughing
and songs in the air
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And the spirit of Christmas
is there everywhere
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For you know it,
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you're friends with us all
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And you're dancing around
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and around in the hall
Well, a little girl sits down
by the Christmas tree lights
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To play the piano, so you gotta keep quiet
To hear all this fun
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you would not realize
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That the copper boss thug men are
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millin' outside
Copperball thugs
stuck their heads in the door
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One of them yelled and
he screamed,
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there's a fire
A lady, she hollered,
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there's no such a thing
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Keep on with your party,
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there's no such thing
A few people rushed,
but it was only a few
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It's just the thugs
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and the scabs fooling you
A man grabbed his daughter
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and he carried her down
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But the thugs held the door
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and he could not get out
And then others followed,
a hundred or more
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But most everybody remained on the floor
The gun thugs,
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they laughed at their murderous joke
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While the children were smothered
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on the stairs by the door
Such a terrible sight, I never did see
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We carried our children back
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up to their tree
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Scabs outside still laughed at their spree
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And the children that died
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there were 73
Their piano played a slow funeral tune
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And the town was lit up
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by a cold Christmas moon
The parents they cried
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and the miners they moaned
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See what your greed for money
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has done you