1913 Massacre chords by Katie Else

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Take a trip with me in 1913
To Calumet,
Michigan in the copper country
I'll take you to a place
called Italian Hall
Where the miners are having
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their big Christmas ball
I'll take you in a door
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an d up a high stair
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We're singing and dancing,
it's heard everywhere
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I'll let you shake hands
with the people you see
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And watch the kids dance
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round the big Christmas tree
You ask about work
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and you ask about pay
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And they'll tell you they make
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less than a dollar a day
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Working the copper claims,
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risking their lives
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So it's fun to spend Christmas
with the children and wives
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There's talking and laughing
and songs in the air
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And the spirit of Christmas
is there everywhere
Before you know it,
you're friends with us all
And you're dancing around
and around in the hall
Well, a little girl sits down
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by the Christmas tree light
To play the piano
so you've got to keep quiet
To hear all this fun
you would not realize
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The Copper Boss
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Thug men are milling outside
Well the Copper Boss
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Thug stick their heads in the door
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and one of them yelled and screamed
there's a fire lady she heart
there's no such a thing
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keep on with your party
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there's no such a thing
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well a few people rushed
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but it was only a few
it's just the thugs and the scabs
A man grabbed his daughter
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
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Then others followed,
about a hundred or more
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But most everybody remained on the floor
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The gunthogs,
they laughed
at their murderous joke
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While the children were
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smothered
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on the stairs by the door
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Such a terrible sight, I never did see
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We carried our children
back up to their tree
The gunthogs still laughed
at their murderous spree
And the children that died
there were seventy -three
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The piano played a slow funeral tune
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And the town was lit up
by a cold Christmas moon
The parents, cried
The miners, they moaned
See what your greed for money has done
See what your greed for money has done
See what your greed for money has done