Guthrie is perhaps best know Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie was an American songwriter and folk musician. Guthrie performed continually throughout his life with his guitar frequently displaying the slogan "This Machine Kills Fascists". Guthrie's musical legacy consists of hundreds of songs, ballads and improvised works covering topics from political themes to traditional songs to children's songs. Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie was an American songwriter and folk musician. "See what your greed for money has done." The parents they cried and the miners they moaned, The scabs outside still laughed at their spree,Īnd the children that died there were seventy-three.Īnd the town was lit up by a cold Christmas moon,
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We carried our children back up to their tree, While the children were smothered on the stairs by the door. The gun thugs they laughed at their murderous joke,
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"It's just the thugs and the scabs fooling you,"Ī man grabbed his daughter and carried her down,īut the thugs held the door and he could not get out.Īnd then others followed, a hundred or more,īut most everybody remained on the floor, Keep on with your party, there's no such thing."Ī few people rushed and it was only a few, One of them yelled and he screamed, "there's a fire,"Ī lady she hollered, "there's no such a thing. The copper boss' thugs stuck their heads in the door, That the copper boss' thug men are milling outside. To hear all this fun you would not realize, To play the piano so you gotta keep quiet, Well a little girl sits down by the Christmas tree lights, There's talking and laughing and songs in the air,Īnd the spirit of Christmas is there everywhere,īefore you know it you're friends with us all,Īnd you're dancing around and around in the hall. So it's fun to spend Christmas with children and wives. Working the copper claims, risking their lives, They'll tell you they make less than a dollar a day, You ask about work and you ask about pay, I will let you shake hands with the people you see,Īnd watch the kids dance around the big Christmas tree. I will take you in a door and up a high stairs, Where the miners are having their big Christmas ball. I will take you to a place called Italian Hall, To Calumet, Michigan, in the copper country.
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You ask about work and you ask about pay, They' I will take you in a door and up a high stairs, Singing and dancing is heard everywhere, I will let you shake hands with the people you see, And watch the kids dance around the big Christmas tree. I will take you to a place called Italian Hall, Where the miners are having their big Christmas ball. 1913 Massacre Words and Music by Woody Guthrie Take a trip with me in 1913, To Calumet, Michigan, in the copper country. I’m sure I was influenced by Goodman’s folk music as well as by Elizabeth Cotton’s famous song, “Freight Train. This little ditty reminded me how much I loved train travel. A few years later, while attending law school at the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, I still played guitar for hours a day, coming up with combinations of chord progressions and finger-picking. I was a “city boy,” and for me train travel represented freedom and the “wide open spaces.” Steve Goodman’s song “The City of New Orleans” won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1971, and Arlo Guthrie’s version became a hit recording. I will never forget the fun I had - enjoying the company of fellow students and being captivated by the beautiful prairie scenery. The first time I took the Illinois Central train - “The City of New Orleans” - from Chicago to Champaign, Illinois, was in 1968. Illinois Central to Champaign – excerpt of first draft