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It was early springtime
and the strike was on
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They drove us miners out of doors
Out from the houses that
the company owned
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We moved into tents up at the water load
I was worried bad about my children
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Soldiers guarding the railroad bridge
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Every once in a while a bullet would fly
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Kick up gravel under my feet
I was so afraid you'd kill
my children.
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The dugout's a cave
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that was seven feet deep.
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Took our young ones and
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the pregnant women.
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Down in silence I came to sleep.
That very night you soldiers waited
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till all us miners was asleep
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You snuck around our little tent town
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and you soaked our tents
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with the kerosene
You struck a match in the place it started
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You pulled the triggers of your Gatling gun
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I made a run for the children
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but the firewall stopped me
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Thirteen children died from your gun
I drag my blanket to a wire fence corner
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Watch the fire till the blaze dies down
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I help some people drag
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their be longings
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While your bullets kill us all around
Never will forget the look on the faces of
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the men and women that awful day
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As we stood around to bridge their funeral
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and laid the corpse of the dead away
Told the Colorado governor
to phone the president
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And tell him call off his National Guard
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But the National Guard
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belonged to the Governor
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So he didn't try so very hard
Our women from Trinidad,
they hauled some
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But to Wallensburg in a little cart
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They sold the potatoes
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and they brought some guns back
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And they put a gun in
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every hand
State soldiers jumped us
in the wire -fenced corners
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They did not know that we had these guns
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And the redneck miners
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mowed down them troopers,
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and shitty seen them poor boys run.
We took some cement
and walled a cave up
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where you kill these thirteen children inside.
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I said God bless the mine workers,
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you and John.
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Then I hung my head and cried
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