Ludlow Massacre Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]It was early springtime
when the strike was on,
They drove us [G]miners out of [D]doors,
Out from the houses that the Company owned,
We moved into [A]tents up at old Lud[D]low.

[Verse 2]
[D]I was worried bad about my children,
Soldiers [G]guarding the railroad [D]bridge,
Every once in a while a bullet would fly,
Kick up [A]gravel under my [D]feet.

[Verse 3]
We were so [D]afraid you would kill our children,
We dug us a [G]cave that
was seven foot [D]deep,
Carried our young ones and
pregnant women
Down [A]in side the cave to sleep[D].

[Verse 4]
That very night [D]your soldiers waited,
Until all us [G]miners were [D]asleep,
You snuck around our little tent town,
Soaked our [A]tents with your kerosene.
[D]

[Verse 5]
You struck a match and in the blaze that started,
You pulled the [G]triggers
of your gatling [D]guns,
I made a run for the children but
the fire wall stopped me.
Thirteen [A]children died from your [D]guns.

[Verse 6]
I carried my [D]blanket to a wire fence corner,
Watched the [G]fire till the blaze died [D]down,
I helped some people drag
their belongings,
While your bullets [A]killed us [D]all around.

[Verse 7]
I never will forget [D]the look on the faces
Of the men and [G]women that awful [D]day,
When we stood around to
preach their funerals,
And [A]lay the corpses of the dead [D]away.

[Verse 8]
We told the Colorado Governor
to call the President,
Tell him to call [G]off his National [D]Guard,
But the National Guard belonged
to the Governor,
So he didn't [A]try so very [D]hard.

[Verse 9]
Our women from [D]Trinidad
they hauled some potatoes,
[G]Up to Walsenburg in a little [D]cart,
They sold their potatoes and
brought some guns back,
And they put a [A]gun in every
[D]hand.

[Interlude 1]
[G][D][A]
[D]

[Verse 10]
[D]The state soldiers jumped us
in a wire fence corners,
They did not [G]know we had these [D]guns,
And the Red- neck Miners mowed
down these troopers,
You should have [A]seen those poor boys [D]run.

[Verse 11]
We took some [D]cement
and walled that cave up,
Where you killed these
[G]thirteen children in[D]side,
I said, "God bless the Mine
Workers' Union,"
And then I [A]hung my head and [D]cried.