Take a trip with me in nineteen To Calumet, in the copper country I'll take you to a called Italian Hall And the miners are having big Christmas ball
I'll take you in a door and up a high Singing and dancing is heard let you shake hands with the people you see And the kids dance 'round the big Christmas tree
talking and laughing and songs in the air And the spirit of Christmas is there Before you know it you're with us all And dancing around and around in the hall
You ask work and you ask about pay They'll tell you they make than a dollar a day Working their claims, risking their lives So it's fun to spend Christmas children and wives
A little sits down by the Christmas tree lights 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 boss stuck their heads in the door One of yelled and he screamed, "There's a fire" A she hollered, "There's no such a thing Keep on with your party, no such a thing"
A few people rushed and there's a few It's just the thugs and the fooling you A man grabbed his 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 most remained on the floor The gun thugs, they laughed at their murderous 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 still laughed at their And the that died there was seventy-three
The piano played a slow tune, And the town was lit up by a Christmas moon The parents, they cried and the men, they "See what greed for money has done?"