文本歌词

1913 Massacre (1913年大屠杀) - Woody Guthrie/Cisco Houston
Take a trip with me in 1913
To Calumet Michigan in the copper country
I take you to a place called Italian Hall
Where the miners are having
Their big Christmas ball
I take you in a door and up a high stairs
Singing and dancing is heard everywhere
I let you shake hands
With the people you see
And watch the kids dance
Around the big Christmas tree
You ask about work and you ask about pay
They'll tell you they make
Less than a dollar a day
Working the copper claims risking their lives
So it's fun to spend Christmas
With children and wives
There's talking and laughing
And songs in the air
And the spirit of Christmas
Is there everywhere
Before you know it
You're friends with us all
And you're dancing around
And around in the hall
Well a little girl sits down
By the Christmas tree lights
To play the piano so you gotta keep quiet
Hear all this fun you would not realize
That the copper boss' thug
Men are milling outside
The copper boss' thugs stuck
Their heads in the door
One of them yelled and
He screamed "there's a fire "
A lady she hollered
"there's no such a thing
Keep on with your party
There's no such thing "
A few people rushed and
It was only a few
"It's just the thugs and the scabs fooling you "
A man grabbed his daughter
And carried her down
But the thugs held the door
And he could not get out
And then others followed a hundred or more
But most everybody remained on the floor
The gun thugs they laughed
At their murderous joke
While the children were smothered
On the stairs by the door
Such a terrible sight I never did see
We carried our children back up to their tree
The scabs outside still laughed at their spree
And the children that died
There were seventy-three
The piano played a slow funeral tune
And the town was lit up by
A cold Christmas moon
The parents they cried and
The miners they moaned
"See what your greed for money has done "