1913 Masacre Lyrics

The song 1913 Masacre is performed by Woody Guthrie in the album named Deja Vu Retro Gold in the year 2006 .



Take a trip with me in nineteen thirteen
To Calumet, Michigan in the copper country
I'll take you to a place called Italian Hall
And the miners are having their big Christmas ball

I'll take you in a door and up a high stairs
Singing and dancing is heard ev'rywhere
I'll let you shake hands with the people you see
And watch the kids dance 'round the big Christmas tree.

There's talking and laughing and songs in the air
And the spirit of Christmas is there ev'rywhere
Before you know it you're friends with us all
And you're dancing around and around in the hall

You ask about work and you ask about pay
They'll tell you they make less than a dollar a day
Working their copper claims, risking their lives
So it's fun to spend Christmas with children and wives.

A little girl sits down by the Christmas tree lights
To play the piano so you gotta keep quiet
To hear all this fun; you would not realize
That the copper boss thug men are milling outside

The copper boss thugs stuck their heads in the door
One of them yelled and he screamed, "There's a fire"
A lady she hollered, "There's no such a thing;
Keep on with your party, there's 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, about a hundred or more
But most everybody remained on the floor
The gun thugs, they laughed at their murderous joke
And the children were smothered on the 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 children that died there was seventy-three

The piano played a slow funeral tune,
And the town was lit up by a cold Christmas moon
The parents, they cried and the men, they moaned,
"See what your greed for money has done?"



Woody Guthrie - Deja Vu Retro Gold

Oct 2006

  1. This Land Is Your Land
  2. Car Song
  3. Wreck Of The Old '97
  4. Hard Travelin'
  5. Vigilante Man
  6. Better World A-Comin'
  7. Oregon Trail
  8. Talking Columbia
  9. John Henry
  10. We Shall Be Free
  11. Will You Miss Me?
  12. Buffalo Skinners
  13. Gypsy Davy
  14. Pretty Boy Floyd
  15. Brown Eyes
  16. House Of The Rising Sun
  17. Little Black Train
  18. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Feet?
  19. Ramblin' Round
  20. Philadelphia Lawyer
  21. Hobo's Lullaby
  22. End Of The Line
  23. Jesus Christ
  24. Do-Re-Mi
  25. Sinking Of The Reuben James
  26. Tom Joad Blues- Pt. 1
  27. Tom Joad Blus- Pt. 2
  28. Great Dust Storm
  29. Talking Dust Bowl Blues
  30. Blowing Down The Road
  31. Dust Bowl Blues
  32. Sally Goodin'
  33. Baltimore To Washington
  34. Rubber Dolly
  35. Bed On The Floor
  36. Poor Boy
  37. Worried Man Blues
  38. Danville Girl
  39. Howdjadoo
  40. Ship In The Sky
  41. I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore
  42. So Long, It's Been Good To Know You
  43. 1913 Masacre
  44. Lublow Massacre
  45. Miner's Song
  46. When The Yanks Go Marching In
  47. Ranger's Command
  48. Whoopie Ti Yi Yo, Get Along Little Doggies
  49. Stewball
  50. Cowboy Waltz

1913 Masacre