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"Ballad of the Ludlow Massacre" | genre: Folk | |
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John D. Rockefellers personal army slaughtered women and children; the families of striking miners. | MP3.com CD: Babytown - buy it!
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Credits: David Kendall Grant, Ph.D. |
Story Behind the Song
Just as the song goes, we were driving to Denver and just past Trinidad, through the mountains. I then noticed the small historic marker sign for the Ludlow Massacre. I knew what it was, but my wife had never heard of it. We got off, turned around and came back and drove down the dirt road, and found the memorial to our right, just by the tracks. Inside a little kiosk was a book of comments. People had come from all over the world and had signed their names, along with stories of relatives who worked the mines, both during that time, as well as understanding the issue from their own experiences in other countries. It gave me a whole new experience of Solidarity.
Lyrics
Ludlow, by DKGrant copyright 2000
D Am
Driving up to Denver
Coming out of Trinidad
D Am
Youll see a sign to make you remember
History to make you mad D
C G
Now it seems so long ago
Families had to fight
C G
Their children have forgotten that
They died to deliver our rights D
Chorus
D
In Ludlow by the train tracks
C
The fires lit up the night
D
They hid beneath the floorboards
C
While the bullets took their flight
Am D
And then John D took their lives
For miles along the freeway
The slag is piled high
The grass is growing over it
Looking like graves as you drive by
But if you take that turn off
And ease down the dusty track
You find a lonely statue
A lovely place to have a snack
Chorus
If you dig a round a bit
Soon youre sure to find
A dog-eared little notebook
Containing scribbled lines
Pilgrims came and left
Their poems, songs and flowers
All to honor the tragedy
That is the worlds and ours
Chorus
Our little noted history,
As Waco soon will be
Like The Great Wars DC veterans
And the broken deportees
People have a right to live
In freedom and peace
Speaking any languages
Living out their own beliefs
Chorus Repeat
New Chorus
Somewhere while were sleeping
The Fires light up the night
Our families and our children
Hide from the Big Mans knife
Am D
From the Big Mans knife
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