Ludlow Massacre chords by
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott

N/A

Key: C major•

Verse 1

C

C

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It was early springtime

and the strike was on

F

F

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C

C

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They drove us miners out of doors

Out from the houses that

the company owned

G

G

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C

C

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We moved into tents up at the water load

I was worried bad about my children

F

F

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C

C

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Soldiers guarding the railroad bridge

F

F

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G

G

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C

C

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Every once in a while a bullet would fly

G

G

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C

C

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Kick up gravel under my feet

I was so afraid you'd kill

my children.

F

F

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The dugout's a cave

C

C

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that was seven feet deep.

F

F

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Took our young ones and

C

C

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the pregnant women.

D

D

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G

G

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C

C

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Down in silence I came to sleep.

That very night you soldiers waited

F

F

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C

C

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till all us miners was asleep

F

F

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G

G

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C

C

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You snuck around our little tent town

G

G

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and you soaked our tents

C

C

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with the kerosene

You struck a match in the place it started

F

F

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G

G

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C

C

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You pulled the triggers of your Gatling gun

F

F

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I made a run for the children

C

C

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but the firewall stopped me

G

G

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C

C

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Thirteen children died from your gun

I drag my blanket to a wire fence corner

F

F

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C

C

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Watch the fire till the blaze dies down

F

F

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I help some people drag

G

G

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C

C

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their be longings

G

G

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C

C

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While your bullets kill us all around

Never will forget the look on the faces of

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F

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C

C

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the men and women that awful day

F

F

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G

G

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C

C

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As we stood around to bridge their funeral

G

G

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C

C

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and laid the corpse of the dead away

Told the Colorado governor

to phone the president

F

F

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And tell him call off his National Guard

C

C

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F

F

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But the National Guard

C

C

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belonged to the Governor

G

G

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C

C

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So he didn't try so very hard

Our women from Trinidad,

they hauled some

F

F

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But to Wallensburg in a little cart

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C

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F

F

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They sold the potatoes

C

C

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and they brought some guns back

G

G

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And they put a gun in

C

C

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every hand

State soldiers jumped us

in the wire -fenced corners

F

F

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C

C

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They did not know that we had these guns

F

F

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And the redneck miners

G

G

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C

C

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mowed down them troopers,

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G

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C

C

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and shitty seen them poor boys run.

We took some cement

and walled a cave up

F

F

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where you kill these thirteen children inside.

C

C

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F

F

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I said God bless the mine workers,

C

C

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you and John.

G

G

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C

C

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Then I hung my head and cried

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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsC F G D

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