Ludlow Massacre chords by Woody Guthrie

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Ludlow Massacre
By Woody Guthrie


Goodbar?s post with chords copied to all verses.

Verse 1
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It was early springtime when the strike was on
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They drove us miners out of doors
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Out from the houses that the company owned
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We moved into tents up at old Ludlow

Verse 2
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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 our feet


Verse 2
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We were so afraid you?d kill our children
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Dug us a cave that was seven foot deep
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Carried our young ones and a pregnant women
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Down inside the cave to sleep


Verse 3
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That very night you soldiers waited
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?Till all us miners was a sleep
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You snuck around our little tent town
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Soaked our tents with your kerosene


Verse 4
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You struck a match and the blaze it started
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You pulled the triggers of your Gatling guns
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I made a run for the children but the firewall stopped me
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Thirteen children died from your gun

Verse 5
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I carried my blanket to a wire-fence corner
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Watched the fire ?till the blaze died down
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I helped some people drag their belongings
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While your bullets killed us all around


Verse 6
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I never will forget the look on the faces

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Of the men and women on that awful day
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When we stood around to preach their funeral
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And lay the corpses of the dead away


Verse 7
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We told the Colorado governor to phone the president
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Tell him call off his national guard
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But the national guard belonged to the governor
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So he didn?t try so very hard


Verse 8
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Our women from Trinidad they hauled some potatoes
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Up to Wallensburg in a little cart
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They sold their potatoes and brought some guns back
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And they put a gun in every hand


Verse 9
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The state soldiers jumped us in the wire-fence corners
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Did not know that we had these guns
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And the redneck miners mowed down them troopers
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You should of seen them poor boys run


Verse 10
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We took some cement and walled the cave up
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Where you killed these thirteen children inside
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I said, ?God bless the mine workers? union?
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And I hung my head and cried