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Ludlow Massacre easy guitar chords by
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie

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Verse 1
D

It was early springtime

when the strike was on,
G
D

They drove us miners out of doors,

Out from the houses that

the Company owned,
A
D

We moved into tents up at old Ludlow.
Verse 2
D

I was worried bad about my children,
G

Soldiers guarding the railroad bridge,
D

Every once in a while a

bullet would fly,
A
D

Kick up gravel under my feet.
Verse 3
D

We were so afraid you

would kill our children,
G
D

We dug us a cave that was seven foot deep,

G

Carried our young ones and
D

pregnant women
A

Down inside the cave to sleep.
D
Verse 4

That very night your soldiers waited,
G
D

Until all us miners were asleep,
G
D

You snuck around our little tent town,
A

Soaked our tents with your kerosene.
D
Verse 5

You struck a match and

in the blaze that started,
G
D

You pulled the triggers of your gatling guns,

I made a run for the children but

the fire wall stopped me.
A
D

Thirteen children died from your guns.
Verse 6
D

I carried my blanket to a wire

fence corner,
G
D

Watched the fire till the blaze died down,

I helped some people drag

their belongings,
A
D

While your bullets killed us all around.
Verse 7
D

I never will forget the look on

the faces
G
D

Of the men and women that awful day,

When we stood around

to preach their funerals,
A

And lay the corpses
D

of the dead away.
G
We told the Colorado Governor
Verse 8
D

to

call the President,
G
D

Tell him to call off his National Guard,

But the National Guard

belonged to the Governor,
A
D

So he didn't try so very hard.
Verse 9
D

Our women from Trinidad they

hauled some potatoes,
G
D

Up to Walsenburg in a little cart,

They sold their potatoes and brought some guns back,

A
D

And they put a gun in every hand.
Verse 10
D

The state soldiers jumped us in

a wire fence corners,
G
D

They did not know we had these guns,

And the Red- neck Miners mowed

down these troopers,
A
D

You should have seen those poor boys run.
Verse 11
D

We took some cement and walled that cave up,

G

Where you killed these thirteen
D

children inside,

I said, "God bless the Mine

Workers' Union,"
A
D

And then I hung my head and cried.

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