Take a trip with me in thirteen To Calumet, Michigan in the country I'll take you to a place called Italian And the miners are their big Christmas ball
I'll take you in a door and up a stairs Singing and dancing is everywhere I'll let you shake with the people you see And watch the kids 'round the big Christmas tree
There's talking and laughing and in the air And the spirit of is there everywhere Before you it you're friends with us all And you're dancing and around in the hall
You ask about and you ask about pay They'll tell you they make less than a a day Working their copper claims, risking lives So it's fun to spend Christmas with children and
A little girl sits down by the Christmas tree To play the piano so you gotta quiet To hear all fun, you would not realize That the copper boss thug men are outside
The copper thugs stuck their heads in the door One of them and he screamed, "There's a fire" A lady she hollered, "There's no a thing Keep on your party, there's no such a thing"
A few people rushed and only a few It's the thugs and the scabs fooling you A man his daughter and he carried her down But the thugs held the door and he not get out
And then others followed, a hundred or more But everybody remained on the floor The gun thugs, they laughed at their joke And the children were smothered on the stairs by the
Such a terrible I never did see We our children back up to their tree The scabs outside laughed at their spree And the children that there was seventy-three
The piano a slow funeral tune, And the town was lit up by a cold Christmas The parents, they cried and the men, moaned "See your greed for money has done?"