Key: C major•
Verse 1
and the strike was on
F
C
They drove us miners out of doors
Out from the houses that
the company owned
G
C
We moved into tents up at the water load
I was worried bad about my children
F
C
Soldiers guarding the railroad bridge
F
G
C
Every once in a while a bullet would fly
G
C
Kick up gravel under my feet
I was so afraid you'd kill
my children.
D
G
C
Down in silence I came to sleep.
That very night you soldiers waited
F
C
till all us miners was asleep
F
G
C
You snuck around our little tent town
You struck a match in the place it started
F
G
C
You pulled the triggers of your Gatling gun
G
C
Thirteen children died from your gun
I drag my blanket to a wire fence corner
F
C
Watch the fire till the blaze dies down
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C
their be longings
G
C
While your bullets kill us all around
Never will forget the look on the faces of
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C
the men and women that awful day
F
G
C
As we stood around to bridge their funeral
G
C
and laid the corpse of the dead away
Told the Colorado governor
to phone the president
C
F
But the National Guard
G
C
So he didn't try so very hard
Our women from Trinidad,
they hauled some
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F
They sold the potatoes
C
every hand
State soldiers jumped us
in the wire -fenced corners
F
C
They did not know that we had these guns
G
C
mowed down them troopers,
G
C
and shitty seen them poor boys run.
We took some cement
and walled a cave up
F
where you kill these thirteen children inside.
C
F
I said God bless the mine workers,
G
C
Then I hung my head and cried
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC F G D
C
F
G
D
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