Take a with me in nineteen thirteen To Calumet, Michigan in the copper I'll you to a place called Italian Hall And the are having their big Christmas ball
I'll take you in a 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 'round the big Christmas
There's and laughing and songs in the air And the of Christmas is there everywhere you know it you're friends with us all And you're dancing and around in the hall
You ask work and you ask about pay They'll tell you they less than a dollar a day their copper claims, risking their lives So it's fun to spend Christmas with and wives
A little girl sits down by the Christmas lights To play the piano so you keep quiet To hear all this fun, you would not That the boss 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 lady she hollered, "There's no a thing Keep on with party, there's no such a thing"
A few people rushed and only a few just the thugs and the scabs fooling you A man his daughter and he carried her down But the thugs the door and he could not get out
And others followed, about a hundred or more But most everybody remained on the The gun thugs, they laughed at their joke And the children smothered on the stairs by the door
a terrible sight I never did see We our children back up to their tree The outside still laughed at their spree And the children that died there was
The played a slow funeral tune, And the town was lit up by a cold Christmas The parents, they and the men, they moaned "See what your greed for has done?"