Lublow Massacre Lyrics

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



It was early springtime when the strike was on,
They drove us miners out of doors,
Out from the houses that the Company owned,
We moved into tents up at old Ludlow.

I was worried bad about my 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,
We dug us a cave that was seven foot deep,
Carried our young ones and pregnant women
Down inside the cave to sleep.

That very night your soldiers waited,
Until all us miners were asleep,
You snuck around our little tent town,
Soaked our tents with your kerosene.

You struck a match and in the blaze that started,
You pulled the triggers of your gatling guns,
I made a run for the children but the fire wall stopped me.
Thirteen children died from your guns.

I carried my blanket to a wire fence corner,
Watched the fire till the blaze died down,
I helped some people drag their 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,
When we stood around to preach their funerals,
And lay the corpses of the dead away.

We told the Colorado Governor to call the President,
Tell him to call off his National Guard,
But the National Guard belonged to the Governor,
So he didn't try so very hard.

Our women from Trinidad they hauled some potatoes,
Up to Walsenburg in a little cart,
They sold their potatoes and brought some guns back,
And they put a gun in every hand.

The state soldiers jumped us in a wire fence corners,
They did not know we had these guns,
And the Red-neck Miners mowed down these troopers,
You should have seen those poor boys run.

We took some cement and walled that cave up,
Where you killed these thirteen children inside,
I said, "God bless the Mine Workers' Union,"
And then I hung my head and cried.



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

Lublow Massacre