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Say, there, did you hear the news? |
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Sacco worked at trimming shoes |
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Vanzetti was a peddling man |
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Pushed his fish cart with his hands |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Sacco and Vanzetti are gone |
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Left me here to sing this song |
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Sacco's born across the sea |
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Somewhere over in Italy |
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Vanzetti's born of parents fine |
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Drank the best Italian wine |
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Sacco sailed the sea one day |
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Landed up in Boston Bay |
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Vanzetti sailed the ocean blue |
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And landed up in Boston too |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Left me here to sing this song |
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Sacco's wife three children had |
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Sacco was a family man |
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Vanzetti was a dreaming man |
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His book was always in his hands |
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Sacco earned his bread and butter |
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Being the factory's best shoe cutter |
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Vanzetti spoke both day and night |
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Told the workers how to fight |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Left me here to sing this song |
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I'll tell you if you ask me |
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'Bout this payroll robbery |
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Two clerks was killed by the shoe factory |
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On the street in South Braintree |
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Judge Thayer told his friends around |
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That he'd cut the radicals down |
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Anarchist bastards was the name |
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Judge Thayer called these two good men |
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I'll tell you the prosecutors' names |
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Katsman, Adams, Williams, Kane |
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The judge and lawyers strutted down |
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They done more tricks than circus clowns |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Left me here to sing this song |
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Vanzetti docked in 1908 |
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Slept along the dirty streets |
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Told the workers organize |
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And on the electric chair he dies |
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All you people ought to be like me |
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And work like Sacco and Vanzetti |
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And every day find some ways to fight |
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On the union side for workers' rights |
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Well, I've got no time to tell this tale |
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The dicks and bulls are on my trail |
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But I'll remember these two good men |
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That died to show me how to live |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Left me here to sing this song |
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All you people in Suassos Lane |
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Sing this song and sing it plain |
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All you folks that's coming along |
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Jump in with me and sing this song |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Two good men a long time gone |
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Left me here to sing this song |
