Take a trip with me in thirteen To Calumet, in the copper country I'll you to a place called Italian Hall And the miners are their big Christmas ball
take you in a door and up a high stairs Singing and is heard everywhere I'll let you hands 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 of Christmas is there everywhere Before you know it you're with us all And you're dancing around and around in the
You ask about work and you ask pay They'll tell you make less than a dollar a day Working their copper claims, risking lives So it's fun to spend with children and wives
A little girl down by the Christmas tree lights To the piano so you gotta keep quiet To hear all this fun, you not realize That the copper boss men are milling outside
The copper thugs 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 only a few It's just the thugs and the scabs you A man grabbed his and he carried her down But the held the door and he could not get out
And then others followed, a hundred or more But everybody remained on the floor The gun thugs, they at their murderous joke And the children were smothered on the by the door
Such a terrible sight I did see We carried our back up to their tree The scabs outside still laughed at spree And the children that died was seventy-three
The piano played a funeral tune, And the town was lit up by a Christmas moon The parents, they cried and the men, they "See what your greed for has done?"