Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Take a trip with me in 1913
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To Calumet,
Michigan and the copper country
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called Italian Hall
Where the miners are having
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their big Christmas ball
I'll take you to a door
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and up the high stairs
is heard everywhere
with the people you see
And watch the kids dance
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round the big Christmas tree
There's talking and laughing
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and songs in the air
friends with us all
And you're dancin' around
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and around in the hall
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They'll tell you they make
Workin' their copper claims,
riskin' their lives
It's fun to spend Christmas
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with children an d wives
A little girl sits down
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by the Christmas tree lights
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To play the piano so you gotta keep quiet
To hear all this fuss
you would not realize
That the copper ball stug men
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are millin' outside
The copper ball stugs
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stuck their heads in the door
A lady, she hollered,
there's no such a thing
Keep on with your party,
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there's no such a thing
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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there's only a few
and carried her down
But the thugs held the door
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and they could not get out
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Then others followed a hundred or more
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Most everybody remained on the floor
at their murderous joke
And the children were smothered
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on the stairs by the door
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Such a terrible sight, I never did see
back up to their tree
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still laughed at their spree
And the children that died
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there were seventy -three
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The piano played a slow funeral tune
by a cold Christmas moon
and the miners they moaned
See what your greed for money has done
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ChordsG D C
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