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1913 Massacre by Woody Guthrie - Guitar Chords

Artist Woody Guthrie How to play the guitar chord A.jpg How to play the guitar chord Bm.jpg How to play the guitar chord D.jpg How to play the guitar chord G.jpg How to play the guitar chord E.jpg

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Version 1
            Fairly simple and pretty freely played

Just about the entire song is played with one pattern:

 E |---------
 B |-----0---
 G |-------0-
 D |---0-----
 A |--0------
 E |---------

ie, A:

 E |---------
 B |-----2---
 G |-------2-
 D |---2-----
 A |--0------
 E |---------



A:     X0222X (maybe easier if barred)
Bm'(?):X0443X
D:     X0023X
G:     X2003X


played with capo II
(sounding key, E)


A                       BmA
Take a trip with me in nineteen thirteen
   D                        G             A
To Calumet, Michigan, in the copper country.
                                 BmA
I'll take you to a place called Italian Hall
         D            G                        A
Where the miners are having their big Christmas ball.

A                                BmA
I'll take you through a door, and up a high stairs.
   D                   G          A
Singing and dancing is heard everywhere,
                                   BmA
I will let you shake hands with the people you see
    D               G                             A
And watch the kids dance round that big Christmas tree.

                           BmA
You ask about work and you ask about pay;
   D                                       G          A
They'll tell you that they make less than a dollar a day,
                             BmA
Working the copper claims, risking their lives,
        D            G                            A
So it's fun to spend Christmas with children and wives.

A                               BmA
There's talking and laughing and songs in the air,
    D                          G          A
And the spirit of Christmas is there everywhere,
                           BmA
Before you know it, you're friends with us all
           D       G                       A
And you're dancing around and around in the hall.

A                                    BmA
Well, a little girl sits down by the Christmas tree lights
   D                      G          A
To play the piano, so you gotta keep quiet.
                               BmA
To hear all this fun you would not realize
         D              G                     A
That the copper-boss thug-men are milling outside.

A                                 BmA
The copper-boss thugs stuck their heads in the door
   D                                 G          A
One of them yelled and he screamed, "There's a fire!"
                               BmA
A lady, she hollered, "There's no such a thing!
        D         G                          A
Keep on with your party, there's no such a thing."

A                               BmA
A few people rushed, and it was only a few
   D                               G        A
"It's only the thugs and the scabs fooling you."
                                BmA
A man grabbed his daughter and carried her down
        D             G                           A
But the thugs held the door and they could not get out.

A                          BmA
And then others followed, a hundred or more
   D               G                 A
But most everybody remained on the floor.
                                   BmA
The gun-thugs they laughed at their murderous joke,
          D            G                             A
While the children were smothered on the stair by the door.

A                       BmA
Such a terrible sight I never did see
   D                         G          A
We carried our children back up to their tree.
                         BmA
The scabs outside still laughed at their spree
        D             G                       A
And the children that died there were seventy-three.

A                  BmA
The piano played a slow funeral tune
   D                         G              A
And the town was lit up by a cold Christmas moon,
                                BmA
The parents they cried and the miners they moaned,
     D         G                   A
"See what your greed for money has done."





-Tabbed by Ryon Castro


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