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Ludlow Massacre
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott
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It was early springtime that the strike was on
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They moved 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 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 would fly
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Kick up gravel under my feet
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We were so afraid they would kill our children
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We 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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Until us miners were asleep
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You snuck around our little tent town
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Soaked our tents with your kerosene
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You struck a match and the 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 till the blaze died down
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I helped some people grab their belongings
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While your bullets killed us all around
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I will never forget the looks 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 corpses of the dead away
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We told the Colorado governor to call 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 governor
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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 Walsenburg 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 a wire fence corner
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They did not know that we had these guns
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And the red neck miners mowed down them troopers
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You should have seen those poor boys run
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We took some cement and walled that cave up
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Where you killed those thirteen children inside
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I said, "God bless the Mine Workers' Union"
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And then I hung my head and cried
Ramblin' Jack Elliott Diamond Joe 1965
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