Ludlow Massacre Lyrics

It was early spring time that the strike was on
They moved us miners out of doors
Out from the houses that the company owned
We moved into tents 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 they would kill our children
We dug us a cave that was seven foot deep
Carried our young ones and a pregnant woman
Down inside the cave to sleep

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

You struck a match and the blaze it 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 'til the blaze died down
I helped some people grab their belongings
While your bullets killed us all around

I will never forget the looks 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 belong 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 put a gun in every hand

The state soldiers jumped us in a wire fence corner
They did not know that we had these guns
And the redneck miners mowed down them troopers
You should have seen those poor boys run

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

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Nov 2006

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2. Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way
3. Bad Lee Brown
4. Baltimore to Washington
5. Bed on the Floor
6. Better World A-Comin'
7. Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done
8. Blowing Down the Road
9. Boll Weevil Blues
10. Brown Eyes
11. Buffalo Skinners
12. Bury Me Beneath the Willow
13. Car Song
14. Columbus Stockade
15. Cowboy Waltz
16. Cumberland Gap
17. Danville Girl
18. Dead or Alive (Poor Lazarus)
19. Dirty Overalls
20. Do-Re-Mi
21. Dust Bowl Blues
22. End of the Line
23. Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
24. Foggy Mountain Top
25. Get Along Little Doggies
26. Grand Coulee Dam
27. Gypsy Davy
28. Hang Knot
29. Hard Ain't It Hard
30. Hard Travelin'
31. Hey Lolly Lolly
32. Hobo's Lullaby
33. Houst of the Rising Sun
34. Howjadoo
35. I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
36. Jack Hammer Blues
37. Jesus Christ
38. John Henry
39. Johnny Hard
40. Little Black Train
41. Lonesome Day
42. Lost John
43. Ludlow Massacre
44. Miner's Song
45. More Pretty Girls Than One
46. Old Time Religion
47. Oregon Trail
48. Philadelphia Lawyer
49. Poor Boy
50. Pretty Boy Floyd
51. Put My Little Shoes Away
52. Ramblin' Round
53. Ranger's Command
54. Ride Old Paint
55. Rubber Dolly
56. Sally Goodin'
57. Ship in the Sky
58. Sinking of the Reuben James
59. Skip to My Lou
60. So Long It's Been Good to Know You
61. Sourwood Mountain
62. Springfield Mountain
63. Stewball
64. Struggle Blues
65. Take a Whiff on Me
66. Talking Columbia
67. Talking Dust Bowl Blues
68. Great Dust Storm
69. Golden Vanity
70. Dying Miner
71. This Land Is Your Land
72. Tom Joad Blues, Pt. 1
73. Tom Joad Blues, Pt. 2
74. Union Burying Ground
75. Vigilante Man
76. Waiting at the Gate
77. We Shall Be Free
78. What Did the Deep Sea Say?
79. When the Yank's Go Marching In
80. Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Feet?
81. Whoopie Tii Yi Yo, Get Along Little Doggies
82. Will You Miss Me?
83. Worrid Man Blues
84. Wreck of the Old '97
85. 1913 Massacre