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Ludlow Massacre
Barbara Dane
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It was early springtime and the strike was on
You drove us miners out of doors
Out of the houses that the company owned
Moved into tents up at old Ludlow
We were worried bad about our 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 you would kill our children
You dug us a cave that was seven foot deep
Put our young ones and a pregnant woman
Down inside that cave to sleep
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That very night your soldiers waited
Till all us miners was asleep
You snuck around our little tent town
Soaked our tents with your kerosene
You struck a match and the blaze it started
Pulled the triggers of your Gatling gun
I made a run for the children but a firewall stopped me
Thirteen children died from your gun
I carried my blanket to a wire fence corner
Watched the fire till the blaze died down
I helped some people drag their little belongings
While your bullets killed us all around
I never will forget the look on the faces
Of the men and women that awful day
As we stood around to preach their funeral
And lay the corpse of the dead away
Well then we phoned the governor, told him call the president
Call off his National Guard
But the National Guard belonged to the governor
So he didn't try so very hard
Well then our women hauled some potatoes
Up to Wallensburg in a little cart
Sold them potatoes and brought some guns back
And they put a gun in every hand
State soldiers jumped us in the wire fence corner
They did not know that we had them guns
And the redneck miners mowed down them troopers
You should have seen them poor boys run
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We took some cement, walled the cave up
Where you killed our thirteen children inside
I said, "God bless the Mine Workers Union"
Then I hung my head and cried
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