Chords for Woody Guthrie - 1913 Massacre

[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ Take a trip with me in _ 1913 _
To Calumet, Michigan in the Copper Country
_ I'll take you to a place called Italian Hall
_ _ _ And the _ miners _ are [F#] having their [B] big Christmas ball
_ _ _ I'll take you in the door and up the high stairs
Singing [E] and dancing is heard [B] everywhere _ _
I'll let you shake hands with the people you see _
_ _ And watch the _ _ kids dance round the big Christmas tree _ _
You _ _ ask about work and you ask about pay
_ _ They'll [E] tell you they make less than a dollar [B] a day _ _
Working their copper claim, 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 [E] spirit of Christmas is there [B] everywhere _ _
Before you know it you're friends with us _ all
And you're dancing _ _
[F#] _ around and [B] around in the _ _ _ _ hall
Well a little girl sits down by the Christmas tree lights
To [E] play the piano so you [B] gotta keep quiet
Here all this fun you would not realize _
That the copper _ ball stug men are milling outside
_ _ The copper ball stugs stuck their heads in the door
_ One of [E] them yelled and he [B] screamed, there's a fire
A lady she [E] hollered, there's no [B] such a thing
Keep on with _ [F#] your party, there's [B] no such a thing
_ A few people rushed and there's only a few
It's just the thugs and the scabs fooling you
_ A man grabbed his daughter and he 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 [E] everybody remained on [B] the floor
The gun thugs they laughed at their murderous joke
While the children _ [F#] _ were smothered on the [B] 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 [F#] children _ _ _ _ that died there was [B] seventy-three
_ The piano played a slow funeral tune
_ _ [E] And the town was lit up by a [B] cold Christmas moon _
The parents they cried and the miners they _ _ _ _ moaned
_ _ [F#] See what _ _ _ your greed for [B] money has done
See what your greed for money has done _ _ _
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