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It was early springtime when the strike was on |
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It drove us miners out of doors |
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Out from the houses that the company owned |
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We moved into tents up at old Ludlow |
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I was worried bad about my children |
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Soldiers guarding the railroad bridge |
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Every once in a while a bullet woud fly |
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Kick up gravel under my feet |
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We were so afraid you would kill our children |
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Dug us a cave that was seven foot deep |
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Carried our young ones and a pregnant woman |
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Down inside the cave to sleep |
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That very night you soldiers waited |
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`Til all us miners was asleep |
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You snucked around our little tent town |
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Soaked our tents with your kerosene |
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You struck a match and in blaze it started |
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You pulled the triggers of your gatling guns |
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I made a run for the children but the fire wall stopped me |
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Thirteen children died from your guns |
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I carried my blanket to a wire fence corner |
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Watched the fire `til the blaze died down |
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I helped some people drag their belongings |
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While your bullets killed us all around |
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I never will forget the look on the faces |
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Of the men and women that awful day |
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When we stood around to preach their funerals |
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And lay the corpse of the dead away |
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We told the Colorado governer to phone the president |
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Tell him to call off his national guard |
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But the national guard belong to the governer |
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So he didn`t try so very hard |
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Our women from Trinidad they hauled some potatoes |
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Up to Walensburg in a little cart |
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They sold their potatoes and brought some guns back |
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And put a gun in every hand |
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The state soldiers jumped us in the wire fence corners |
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Did not know that we have these guns |
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And the Red neck miners mowed down them troopers |
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You should have seen them poor boys run |
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We took some cement and walled the cave up |
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Where you killed these thirteen children inside |
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I said:"God bless the miner worker`s union" |
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Then I hung my head and cry |