Ludlow Massacre chords by
Arlo Guthrie
The Dillards

N/A

Key: D major

Verse 1
D D 
 
It was early springtime
when the strike was on,
G G 
 
D D 
 
They drove us miners out of doors,
Out from the houses that the Company owned,
A A 
 
D D 
 
We moved into tents up at old Ludlow.

Verse 2

I was worried bad about my children,

Soldiers guarding the railroad bridge,

Every once in a while a bullet would fly,

Kick up gravel under my feet.

Verse 3
D D 
 
We were so afraid you would kill our children,
G G 
 
We dug us a cave that
D D 
 
was seven foot deep,
Carried our young ones and
pregnant women
A A 
 
D D 
 
Down in side the cave to sleep.

Verse 4
D D 
 
That very night your soldiers waited,
G G 
 
D D 
 
Until all us miners were asleep,
You snuck around our little tent town,
A A 
 
Soaked our tents with your kerosene.
D D 
 

Verse 5
You struck a match and in the blaze that started,
G G 
 
You pulled the triggers
D D 
 
of your gatling guns,
I made a run for the children but
the fire wall stopped me.
A A 
 
D D 
 
Thirteen children died from your guns.

Verse 6
D D 
 
I carried my blanket to a wire fence corner,
G G 
 
D D 
 
Watched the fire till the blaze died down,
I helped some people drag
their belongings,
A A 
 
D D 
 
While your bullets killed us all around.

Verse 7
D D 
 
I never will forget the look on the faces
G G 
 
D D 
 
Of the men and women that awful day,
When we stood around to
preach their funerals,
A A 
 
D D 
 
And lay the corpses of the dead away.

Verse 8
We told the Colorado Governor
to call the President,
G G 
 
D D 
 
Tell him to call off his National Guard,
But the National Guard belonged
to the Governor,
A A 
 
D D 
 
So he didn't try so very hard.

Verse 9
D D 
 
Our women from Trinidad
they hauled some potatoes,
G G 
 
D D 
 
Up to Walsenburg in a little cart,
They sold their potatoes and
brought some guns back,
A A 
 
And they put a gun in every
D D 
 
hand.

Interlude 1

Verse 10
D D 
 
The state soldiers jumped us
in a wire fence corners,
G G 
 
D D 
 
They did not know we had these guns,
And the Red- neck Miners mowed
down these troopers,
A A 
 
D D 
 
You should have seen those poor boys run.

Verse 11
D D 
 
We took some cement
and walled that cave up,
Where you killed these
G G 
 
D D 
 
thirteen children inside,
I said, "God bless the Mine
Workers' Union,"
A A 
 
D D 
 
And then I hung my head and cried.

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