Take a trip me in nineteen thirteen To Calumet, in the copper country I'll take you to a place called Italian And the are having their big Christmas ball
I'll take you in a and up a high stairs Singing and is heard everywhere let you shake hands with the people you see And watch the kids dance the big Christmas tree
There's and laughing and songs in the air And the spirit of Christmas is there Before you know it friends with us all And dancing around and around in the hall
You ask work and you ask about pay They'll tell you make less than a dollar a day Working copper claims, risking their lives So it's fun to spend Christmas with and wives
A little sits down by the Christmas tree lights To the piano so you gotta keep quiet To hear all this fun, you not realize That the boss thug men are milling outside
The copper thugs stuck their heads in the door One of them and he screamed, "There's a fire" A lady she hollered, "There's no such a Keep on with party, there's 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 daughter and he her down But the thugs held the door and he not get out
And then followed, about a hundred or more But everybody remained on the floor The gun thugs, they laughed at their murderous And the were smothered on the stairs by the door
a terrible sight I never 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 played a slow funeral 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?"