The Ludlow Massacre Lyrics

The song The Ludlow Massacre is performed by Woody Guthrie in the album named My Dusty Road in the year 2009 .



It was early springtime 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 till 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 red neck 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



Woody Guthrie - My Dusty Road

Aug 2009

  1. This Land Is Your Land
  2. Going Down The Road (I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way)
  3. Talking Sailor
  4. Philadelphia Lawyer
  5. Hard Travelin'
  6. Jesus Christ
  7. The Sinking Of The Reuben James
  8. Pretty Boy Floyd
  9. Grand Coulee Dam
  10. Nine Hundred Miles
  11. Going Down The Road (I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way)
  12. My Daddy (Flies A Ship In The Sky)
  13. Bad Repetation
  14. Poor Boy
  15. Worried Man Blues
  16. A Picture From Life's Other Side
  17. Buffalo Skinners
  18. Hard Ain't It Hard
  19. Stewball
  20. Stackolee
  21. Gypsy Davy
  22. Little Darling Pal Of Mine
  23. What Did The Deep Sea Say?
  24. Chisholm Trail
  25. Put My Little Shoes Away
  26. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?
  27. John Henry
  28. I'm Gonna Join That One Big Union (You Gotta Go Down and Join the Union)
  29. Hangnot, Slipnot
  30. Gonna Roll The Union On
  31. The Ludlow Massacre
  32. Sally Don't You Grieve
  33. Harriet Tubman's Ballad Part 1
  34. Harriet Tubman's Ballad Part 2
  35. Tear The Facists Down
  36. When The Yanks Go Marching In
  37. You Can Hear My Whistle Blow
  38. Union Burying Ground
  39. You Gotta Go Down And Join The Union
  40. Train Breakdown
  41. Do You Ever Think Of Me (Aka At My Window)
  42. Guitar Rag
  43. Square Dance Medley
  44. Guitar Breakdown
  45. Raincrow Bill
  46. Ain't Nobody's Business
  47. Stepstone
  48. Ezekiel Saw The Wheel
  49. Bile Them Cabbage Down
  50. Danville Girl
  51. Guitar Blues
  52. Brown's Ferry Blues
  53. More Pretty Girls Than One
  54. Sonny's Flight

The Ludlow Massacre