Take a trip me in nineteen thirteen To Calumet, in the copper country take you to a place called Italian Hall And the are having their big Christmas ball
I'll take you in a door and up a stairs Singing and is heard everywhere I'll let you shake hands with the you see And watch the kids dance 'round the big Christmas
There's talking and laughing and in the air And the of Christmas is there everywhere you know it you're friends with us all And you're around and around in the hall
You ask about and you ask about pay They'll tell you they make less a dollar a day Working copper claims, risking their lives So fun to spend Christmas with children and wives
A little girl down by the Christmas tree lights To the piano so you gotta keep 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 such a Keep on with party, there's no such a thing"
A few rushed and there's only a few It's just the and the scabs fooling you A man grabbed his 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 on the floor The gun thugs, they laughed at their joke And the children were smothered on the by the door
Such a terrible I never did see We carried our children back up to tree The scabs outside laughed at their spree And the children that died there was
The piano played a funeral tune, And the town was lit up by a Christmas moon The parents, cried and the men, they moaned "See your greed for money has done?"