Take a trip me in nineteen thirteen To Calumet, in the copper country I'll you to a place called Italian Hall And the miners are having their big Christmas
I'll you in a door and up a high stairs and dancing is heard everywhere I'll let you shake hands the people you see And watch the kids dance 'round the big Christmas
There's talking and 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 and around in the hall
You ask about and you ask about pay They'll tell you make less than a dollar a day Working their claims, risking their lives So it's fun to spend Christmas children and wives
A little girl down by the Christmas tree lights To play the piano so you gotta quiet To all this fun, you would not realize That the copper boss men are milling outside
The copper boss thugs stuck heads in the door One of yelled 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 rushed and only a few It's the thugs and the scabs fooling you A man grabbed his daughter and he carried her But the thugs held the and he could not get out
And then followed, about a hundred or more But most remained on the floor The gun thugs, they at their murderous joke And the children were smothered on the by the door
a terrible sight I never did see We carried our children back up to tree The outside still laughed at their spree And the children that there was seventy-three
The piano played a funeral tune, And the was lit up by a cold Christmas moon The parents, they cried and the men, moaned "See your greed for money has done?"