Key: D major•
Verse 1
when the strike was on,
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They drove us miners out of doors,
Out from the houses that the Company owned,
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We moved into tents up at old Ludlow.
Verse 2
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Soldiers guarding the railroad bridge,
Every once in a while a bullet would fly,
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Kick up gravel under my feet.
Verse 3
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We were so afraid you would kill our children,
Carried our young ones and
pregnant women
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Down in side the cave to sleep.
Verse 4
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Until all us miners were asleep,
You snuck around our little tent town,
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Verse 5
You struck a match and in the blaze that started,
I made a run for the children but
the fire wall stopped me.
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Thirteen children died from your guns.
Verse 6
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I carried my blanket to a wire fence corner,
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Watched the fire till the blaze died down,
I helped some people drag
their belongings,
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While your bullets killed us all around.
Verse 7
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Of the men and women that awful day,
When we stood around to
preach their funerals,
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And lay the corpses of the dead away.
Verse 8
We told the Colorado Governor
to call the President,
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Tell him to call off his National Guard,
But the National Guard belonged
to the Governor,
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So he didn't try so very hard.
Verse 9
they hauled some potatoes,
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Up to Walsenburg in a little cart,
They sold their potatoes and
brought some guns back,
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hand.
Interlude 1
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Verse 10
in a wire fence corners,
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They did not know we had these guns,
And the Red- neck Miners mowed
down these troopers,
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You should have seen those poor boys run.
Verse 11
and walled that cave up,
Where you killed these
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thirteen children inside,
I said, "God bless the Mine
Workers' Union,"
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And then I hung my head and cried.
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