Take a trip with me in thirteen To Calumet, in the copper country I'll take you to a place called Hall And the miners are having their big Christmas
I'll take you in a and up a high stairs and dancing is heard everywhere I'll let you hands with the people you see And watch the 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 you're dancing around and in the hall
You ask about and you ask about pay They'll tell you they make than a dollar a day Working their copper claims, their lives So it's fun to spend Christmas children and wives
A little girl sits by the Christmas tree lights To play the piano so you gotta keep To all this fun, you would not realize That the copper boss men are milling outside
The copper boss thugs their heads in the door One of them and he screamed, "There's a fire" A she hollered, "There's no such a thing Keep on with party, there's no such a thing"
A few rushed and there's only a few It's just the and the scabs fooling you A man his daughter and he carried her down But the held 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, laughed at their murderous joke And the children were smothered on the stairs by the
Such a sight I never did see We carried our children back up to 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 cold moon The parents, they cried and the men, they "See what your greed for has done?"