Take a trip me in nineteen thirteen To Calumet, in the copper country I'll take you to a place Italian Hall And the miners are having their big Christmas
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 talking and laughing and in the air And the spirit of Christmas is everywhere Before you know it you're with us all And you're around and around in the hall
You ask work and you ask about pay They'll tell you they make less than a a day Working their claims, risking their lives So it's fun to spend Christmas with children and
A little girl sits down by the Christmas tree To play the so you gotta keep quiet To hear all this fun, you would not That the boss thug men are milling outside
The boss thugs stuck their 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 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 murderous joke And the were smothered on the stairs by the door
a terrible sight I never did see We our children back up to their tree The outside still 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 Christmas The parents, cried and the men, they moaned "See what your greed for has done?"