Take a trip with me in thirteen To Calumet, Michigan in the copper I'll take you to a place called Hall And the miners are having big Christmas ball
take you in a door and up a high stairs Singing and dancing is heard I'll let you shake hands with the you see And watch the kids dance the big Christmas tree
There's and laughing and songs in the air And the spirit of Christmas is there Before you know it you're friends us all And you're dancing around and in the hall
You ask work and you ask about pay tell you they make less than a dollar a day Working their copper claims, their lives So it's fun to spend Christmas with children and
A little girl down by the Christmas tree lights To the piano so you gotta keep quiet To hear all fun, you would not realize That the copper thug men are milling outside
The copper boss thugs stuck their heads in the One of them and he screamed, "There's a fire" A she hollered, "There's no such a thing Keep on with your party, there's no a thing"
A few people and there's only a few It's just the thugs and the scabs you A man his daughter and he carried her down But the thugs the door and he could not get out
And then followed, about a hundred or more But everybody remained on the floor The gun thugs, laughed at their murderous joke And the children smothered on the stairs by the door
Such a terrible sight I did see We our children back up to their tree The scabs outside still at their spree And the children that died there was
The piano played a slow tune, And the town was lit up by a Christmas moon The parents, cried and the men, they moaned "See what your greed for has done?"