Take a with me in nineteen thirteen To Calumet, Michigan in the copper I'll take you to a place called Italian And the are having their big Christmas ball
I'll take you in a door and up a high Singing and dancing is 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 Christmas is everywhere Before you it you're friends with us all And you're dancing and around in the hall
You ask about work and you ask pay tell you they make less than a dollar a day Working copper claims, risking their lives So it's fun to spend with children and wives
A little girl sits down by the Christmas lights To play the so you gotta keep quiet To hear all fun, you would not realize That the boss thug men are milling outside
The copper boss thugs stuck their in the door One of yelled and he screamed, "There's a fire" A lady she hollered, "There's no such a Keep on with your party, there's no a thing"
A few people rushed and only a few It's the thugs and the scabs fooling you A man grabbed his daughter and he her down But the thugs held the door and he not get out
And then others followed, a hundred or more But most remained on the floor The gun thugs, they laughed at murderous joke 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 scabs outside laughed at their spree And the children that there was seventy-three
The piano played a slow tune, And the town was lit up by a Christmas moon The parents, they and the men, they moaned "See what greed for money has done?"