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