Take a trip me in nineteen thirteen To Calumet, Michigan in the copper I'll take you to a place called Hall And the miners are having their big ball
take you in a door and up a high stairs Singing and is heard everywhere I'll let you shake with the people you see And watch the dance 'round the big Christmas tree
There's talking and laughing and in the air And the of Christmas is there everywhere Before you know it you're with us all And you're dancing around and around in the
You ask work and you ask about pay tell you they 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 sits down by the Christmas 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 yelled and he screamed, "There's a fire" A she hollered, "There's no such 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 others followed, about a or more But most everybody remained on the The gun thugs, they laughed at murderous joke And the children smothered on the stairs by the door
Such a sight I never did see We carried our children back up to their The scabs outside laughed at their spree And the children that died was seventy-three
The piano played a slow tune, And the town was lit up by a cold moon The parents, they and the men, they moaned "See your greed for money has done?"