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Lyrics for Ludlow Massacre by Guthrie Woody:
| | | Artist: | Guthrie Woody |
| | Album: | Miscellaneous | | Track: | Ludlow Massacre | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 54 | | | | Lyrics: | LUDLOW MASSACRE
(Woody Guthrie)
It was early springtime that the strike was
on
They moved us miners out of doors
Out from the houses that the company owned
We
moved into tents at old Ludlow
I was worried bad about my children
Soldiers guarding
the railroad bridge
Every once in a while a bullet would fly
Kick up gravel under my
feet
We were so afraid they would kill our children
We dug us a cave that was seven
foot deep
Carried our young ones and a pregnant woman
Down inside the cave to
sleep
That very night you soldier waited
Until us miners were asleep
You snuck
around our little tent town
Soaked our tents with your kerosene
You struck a match
and the blaze it started
You pulled the triggers of your gatling guns
I made a run for the
children but the fire wall stopped me
Thirteen children died from your guns
I
carried my blanket to a wire fence corner
Watched the fire till the blaze died down
I
helped some people grab their belongings
While your bullets killed us all around
I
will never forget the looks 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 to call the President
Tell him to call off his National Guard
But the
National Guard belong to the governor
So he didn't try so very hard
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 put a gun in every hand
The state soldiers
jumped us in a wire fence corner
They did not know that we had these guns
And the red neck
miners mowed down them troopers
You should have seen those poor boys run
We took
some cement and walled that cave up
Where you killed those thirteen children inside
I
said, "God bless the Mine Workers' Union"
And then I hung my head and cried
@union
@soldier @murder
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