Chords for 1913 Massacre

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Take a trip with me [F#] in _ [B] 1913 To _ _ _ [E] _
Calumet, [D#] Michigan in [C#m] the copper [B] country _ _ _
_ I'll take you to a place [E] called Italian [B] _
Hall _ _ Where the miners _ _ are having [F#] that big Christmas
[B] ball _ _ _ _ _
Take you in a door and [F#] up a [B] high stairs
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Singing and [D#] dancing is [C#m]
heard _ [B] everywhere _ _ Let you shake hands with [E] the people you'll
[B]
see _ [E] _ And [B]
watch the kids dance round the [F#] big Christmas
[B] tree _ _ _ _ _ There's talking and laughing and [D#m] songs in
the [B] air And [E] the spirit of [D#] Christmas is [C#m] there [B] everywhere
_ _ Before you know it you're [E] friends with [B] us _ _ all
And you're dancing around [F#] and around in the [B] hall _
_ _ You ask about work and [F#] you ask about [B]
pay [E] And they'll tell you [B] they make less [C#m] than a
dollar [B] a day _ Working their copper claims [E] and risking their
[B] lives _ _ _ It's fun to spend Christmas [F#] with the children
and [B] wives _ _ _ A little girl sits down by [F#] the Christmas
tree [B] lights _ [E] They play the piano [B] so [C#m] you've got to keep
quiet To hear all this fun you [E] would not _ [B] realize _ _ _
That the copper boss thug men [F#] are milling _ outside
_ The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ copper boss thugs stick their [F#] heads in the [B] door
_ _ [E] And one of them [D#m] yelled and screamed [C#m]
there's a [B] fire
_ A lady she hollered there's [E] no such [B] a thing _ _ Keep on _ with your party there's [F#] no such [B] a
thing A _ _ few people rushed and it was [F#] only a few
[B] _
_ [E] It's just the [D#]
scabs and [C#m] the thugs [B] fooling you
A man grabbed his daughter [E] and he carried [B] her down
_ _ And the thugs held the door [F#] and he could not [B] get out _
_ _ And then others followed about [F#] a hundred or [B] more
_ [E] But most _ [D#m]
everybody [C#m] remained on the [B]
floor _ The gun thugs had laughed at [E] their murderous _ _
[B] joke _ _ And the children _ were _ smothered on [F#] the stairs
by [B] the door _ _ _ _ Such a terrible sight I [F#] never [B] did see
We [E]
carried our [B] children back [C#m] up to that [B] tree
The scabs _ outside still [E]
laughed at their [B] spree _ _
_ And the children _ that died there [F#] were seventy [B]-three
The _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ piano played this [F#] slow funeral [B] tune _ [E] And the town was [B] lit up by a [C#m] cold Christmas
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moon The _ _ parents they cried [E] and the minors [B] they _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ moaned _ _ _ [B] See _ what your _ [F#] greed for money [B] has done
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