Ludlow Massacre - Woody Guthrie Chords
Chords: G, C, D7
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G
It was early springtime when the strike was on
C G
They drove us miners out of doors
C G
Out from the houses that the company owned
D7 G
We moved into tents up at old Ludlow
G
I was worried bad about my children
C G
Soldiers guarding the railroad bridge
C G
Every once in a while a bullet would fly
D7 G
Kick up gravel under our feet
G
We were so afraid you'd kill our children
C G
Dug us a cave that was seven foot deep
C G
Carried our young ones and a pregnant women
D7 G
Down inside the cave to sleep
G
That very night you soldiers waited
C G
'Till all us miners was a sleep
C G
You snuck around our little tent town
D7 G
Soaked our tents with your kerosene
G
You struck a match and the blaze it started
C G
You pulled the triggers of your Gatling guns
C G
I made a run for the children but the firewall stopped me
D7 G
Thirteen children died from your gun
G
I carried my blanket to a wire-fence corner
C G
Watched the fire 'till the blaze died down
C G
I helped some people drag their belongings
D7 G
While your bullets killed us all around
G
I never will forget the look on the faces
C G
Of the men and women on that awful day
C G
When we stood around to preach their funeral
D7 G
And lay the corpses of the dead away
G
We told the Colorado governor to phone the president
C G
Tell him call off his national guard
C G
But the national guard belonged to the governor
D7 G
So he didn't try so very hard
G
Our women from Trinidad they hauled some potatoes
C G
Up to Wallensburg in a little cart
C G
They sold their potatoes and brought some guns back
D7 G
And they put a gun in every hand
G
The state soldiers jumped us in the wire-fence corners
C G
Did not know that we had these guns
C G
And the redneck miners mowed down them troopers
D7 G
You should of seen them poor boys run
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