Verse
Take a trip with me in 1913
To Calumet, Michigan, in the copper country.
I’ll take you to a place called EYE talian Hall
Where the miners
are having their big Christmas ball.
Verse
I’ll take you indoor, a nd up a high stair.
Th ere’s singin’ and dancin’, it’s he ard everywhere,
I’ll let you shake hands with the people you see
And watch…
the kids dance round the big Christmas tree.
Verse
There’s singin’ and dancin’ and songs in the air,
An’ the spirit of Christmas is there everywhere,
Before you know, you’re friends with us all
And you’re dancin’
around and around in the hall.
Verse
You ask about work and you ask about pay;
They’ll tell you they make less than a dollar a day,
Just workin’ the copper claims, riskin’ their lives,
So it’s fun
to spend Christmas with ch ildren and wiv es.
Verse
A little girl sits by the Christmas tree lights
To play piano, she gotta keep quiet.
To hear all this fun you would not realize
That the copper
-boss thug-men are millin’ outside.
Verse
The copper-thugs stuck their heads through 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 thing.”
Verse
A few people rushed, and it’s only a few.
”It’s just the scabs and the thugs foolin’ you.”
A man grabbed his daughter and he carried her down,
But the thugs
held the door and he could not get out.
Verse
And then others followed, a hundred or more,
Bu t most everybody remained on the floor.
The scabs and the thugs they still laughed at their joke,
And the children
were smothered on the stairs by the door.
Verse
Such a terrible sight I never did see,
We carried our children back up to their tree.
The scabs and the thugs they still laughed at their spree,
And the children
that died there were seventy- three.
Verse
The piano played a slow funeral tune,
But the town was lit up by a cold Christmas moon,
The parents they weep and the miners they moan,
“See
what your greed for money has done.”
Outro
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