The Death Of Harry Simms chords by
Jim Garland
Jim Garland

N/A
Key: F minor
Verse 1
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I made this song about a boy
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who lived in my house
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He started organizing working
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people into unions at sixteen
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He was born and raised in Springfield,
Massachusetts
He led an unemployed demonstration when
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he was sixteen in Springfield
Later he went to Birmingham, Alabama
And worked amongst the white
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and Black workers there
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Organizing for better conditions
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When we had our trouble in Kentucky
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He came up to Kentucky, helping
the mine strike
And I got acquainted with him
And he helped us first successful
youth conference in the South
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He's a friend, got killed
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I made this song about him
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Hope you like it
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Comrades, listen to my story
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Workers, listen to my song
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I'll tell you of a hero
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Who's now dead and gone
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I'll tell you of a worker
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Whose age was just nineteen
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He was the strongest union man
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That I have ever seen
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Harry Simms, he was
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a pal of mine
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We labored side by side
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Expecting to be shot on sight
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Or taken for a ride
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By the dirty capitalist gun thugs
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Who roamed from town to town
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To shoot and kill our comrades
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Where'er they may be found
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Harry Simms and I was parted
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At five o'clock that day
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"Be careful, my dear comrade"
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To Harry I did say
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"Well, I must do my duty"
Was his reply to me
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"If I get killed by the gun thugs
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Please don't grieve over me
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Just remain a faithful worker
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Dear comrade, do be wise
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Remain a faithful worker
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Dear comrade, do be wise
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Help destroy this rotten system
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Don't fail to organize"
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He was walking up the railroad
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track
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One bright, sunshiny day
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He was young and handsome
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And his step was light and gay
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We did not know the gun
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thugs
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Was a- waitin' on the way
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To take our dear young comrade's life
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This bright, sunshiny day
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Harry Simms was killed on Brush Creek
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In nineteen and thirty- two
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He organized the miners
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In the good ol' NMU
He fought for the union
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That's all that he could do
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He died for the union
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Also for me and you
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Now comrades, we must file today
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That one thing we must do
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We'll organize all the miners
In the good ol' NMU
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We'll get a million vo lunteers
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For the YCL
And sink this rotten system
In the deepest pits of hell

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