Ludlow Massacre

Ludlow Massacre easy guitar chords by Woody Guthrie

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    • Verse 1
    It 
    was early 
    springtime 

    when 
    the strike 
    was on, 

    They 
    drove 
    us miners 
    out 
    of door
    s, 

    Out from 
    the houses 
    that 

    the Company 
    owned, 

    We 
    moved into 
    tents 
    up 
    at old Ludlow. 

    Verse 2
    I 
    was worried 
    bad 
    about 
    my 
    children, 

    Soldier
    s guarding 
    the 
    railroad 
    bridge, 

    Every 
    once in 
    a while 
    a 

    bullet would 
    fly, 

    Kick up 
    gravel 
    under my 
    feet. 

    Verse 3
    We 
    were so 
    afraid 
    you 

    would kill our 
    children, 

    We 
    dug us 
    a 
    cave 
    that 
    was seven 
    foot deep
    , 


    Carried 
    our young 
    ones 
    and 

    pregnant 
    women 

    Down 
    inside 
    the 
    cave 
    to sleep. 

    Verse 4
    That 
    very 
    night 
    your 
    soldiers 
    waited, 

    Until all 
    us miners 
    were asleep
    , 

    You 
    snuck 
    around 
    our little 
    tent town, 

    Soaked 
    our tents 
    with 
    your kerosene. 

    Verse 5
    You 
    struck 
    a match 
    and 

    in the blaze 
    that started, 

    You 
    pulled 
    the triggers 
    of your 
    gatling 
    gun
    s, 

    I 
    made 
    a run 
    for 
    the children 
    but 

    the fire 
    wall stopped 
    me. 

    Thirteen 
    children 
    died 
    from 
    your 
    gun
    s. 

    Verse 6
    I 
    carried 
    my blanket 
    to 
    a wire 

    fence corner, 

    Watched 
    the 
    fire 
    till 
    the blaze 
    died down, 

    I 
    helped some 
    people 
    drag 

    their 
    belongings, 

    While 
    your bullet
    s killed 
    us all 
    around. 

    Verse 7
    I 
    never will 
    forget 
    the 
    look on 

    the faces 

    Of the men 
    and 
    women 
    that 
    awful 
    day, 

    When 
    we stood 
    around 

    to preach 
    their 
    funerals, 

    And lay 
    the 
    corpses 

    of the dead 
    away. 

    We told 
    the 
    Colorado 
    Governor 
    Verse 8
    to 

    call 
    the President, 

    Tell him to call 
    off 
    his 
    National 
    Guard, 

    But 
    the National 
    Guard 

    belonged 
    to the Governor, 

    So 
    he didn't 
    try 
    so 
    very 
    hard. 

    Verse 9
    Our 
    women 
    from Trinidad 
    they 

    hauled 
    some potatoes, 

    Up 
    to 
    Walsenburg in a little 
    cart, 

    They 
    sold 
    their potatoes 
    and brought 
    some guns 
    back, 


    And they put a 
    gun 
    in every 
    hand. 

    Verse 10
    The 
    state soldiers 
    jumped 
    us 
    in 

    a wire fence 
    corners, 

    They did not 
    know 
    we had these 
    gun
    s, 

    And 
    the Red- neck 
    Miners 
    mowed 

    down 
    these 
    troopers, 

    You 
    should have 
    seen 
    those 
    poor 
    boys 
    run. 

    Verse 11
    We 
    took some 
    cement 
    and walled 
    that cave 
    up, 


    Where you killed 
    these thirteen 

    children 
    in
    side, 

    I said, 
    "God 
    bless 
    the 
    Mine 

    Workers' Union," 

    And 
    then I 
    hung 
    my 
    head and 
    cried. 

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