[00:02.946]It was early springtime when the strike was on
[00:08.448]It drove us miners out of doors
[00:12.196]Out from the houses that the company owned
[00:16.197]We moved into tents up at old Ludlow
[00:20.946]
[00:23.196]I was worried bad about my children
[00:27.446]Soldiers guarding the railroad bridge
[00:31.697]Every once in a while a bullet woud fly
[00:35.946]Kick up gravel under my feet
[00:40.196]
[00:40.947]We were so afraid you would kill our children
[00:45.196]Dug us a cave that was seven foot deep
[00:48.946]Carried our young ones and a pregnant woman
[00:53.895]Down inside the cave to sleep
[00:58.394]
[00:59.896]That very night you soldiers waited
[01:03.895]`Til all us miners was asleep
[01:07.395]You snucked around our little tent town
[01:11.394]Soaked our tents with your kerosene
[01:15.394]
[01:16.144]You struck a match and in blaze it started
[01:19.895]You pulled the triggers of your gatling guns
[01:23.895]I made a run for the children but the fire wall stopped me
[01:29.895]Thirteen children died from your guns
[01:34.645]
[01:35.395]I carried my blanket to a wire fence corner
[01:39.646]Watched the fire `til the blaze died down
[01:43.895]I helped some people drag their belongings
[01:48.144]While your bullets killed us all around
[01:52.145]
[01:53.144]I never will forget the look on the faces
[01:57.145]Of the men and women that awful day
[02:01.644]When we stood around to preach their funerals
[02:05.895]And lay the corpse of the dead away
[02:10.645]
[02:11.645]We told the Colorado governer to phone the president
[02:17.395]Tell him to call off his national guard
[02:22.341]But the national guard belong to the governer
[02:26.591]So he didn`t try so very hard
[02:31.092]
[02:32.091]Our women from Trinidad they hauled some potatoes
[02:37.091]Up to Walensburg in a little cart
[02:40.591]They sold their potatoes and brought some guns back
[02:45.341]And put a gun in every hand
[02:49.840]
[02:51.091]The state soldiers jumped us in the wire fence corners
[02:55.591]Did not know that we have these guns
[03:00.091]And the Red neck miners mowed down them troopers
[03:05.090]You should have seen them poor boys run
[03:09.341]
[03:10.341]We took some cement and walled the cave up
[03:14.591]Where you killed these thirteen children inside
[03:20.091]I said:"God bless the miner worker`s union"
[03:25.590]Then I hung my head and cry