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