Take a trip with me, 1913 To Calumet, Michigan, the copper country
Take you to a place called Italian Hall Miners are havin' their big Christmas ball
Take you in a door and up a high stairs Singin' and dancin' heard everywhere
Let you shake hands with the people you see And watch the kids dance round the big Christmas tree
There's talkin' and laughin' and songs in the air And the spirit of Christmas is there everywhere
Before you know it, you're friends with us all And you're dancin' around and around in the hall
A little girl sits down by the Christmas tree lights To play the piano, so you gotta keep quiet
To hear all this fun, you would not realize That the copper boss thugs are millin' outside
The copper boss thugs stuck their heads in the door One of them yelled and he screamed, there's a fire
Lady, she hollered, there's no such a thing Keep on with your party, there's no such a thing
Then others followed, a hundred or more But most everybody remained on the floor
The gun thugs, they laughed at their murderous joke And the children were smothered on the stairs by the door
Such a terrible sight, I never did see We carried our children back up to their tree
Scabs outside still laughed at their spree And the children that died, there were seventy-three
The piano played a slow funeral tune And the town was lit up by a cold Christmas moon
Parents, they cried and the miners, they moaned See what your greed for money has done
Thank you