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The Flood and the Storm
04:45
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The year is nineteen and twenty, kind friends
And the great World's War we have won
Old Kaiser Bill, we've beat him once again
In the smoke of the cannon and the gun
Old von Hindenburg and his Royal German Army
They are tramps in tatters and in rags
Uncle Sammy has tied every nation in this world
In his long old leather money bags
Wilson caught a trip and a train into Paris
Meetin' Lloyd George and Mr. Clemenceau
They said to Mr. Wilson, "We've staked all of our claims
There is nothing else for you."
"I plowed more lands, I built bigger fact'ries
An' I stopped Hindenburg in his tracks
You thank the Yanks by claimin' all the lands
But you still owe your money to my bank."
"Keep sending your ships across these waters;
We'll borrow all the money you can lend
We must buy new clothes, new plows, and fact'ries
And we need golden dollars for to spend."
Ever' dollar in the world, well, it rolled and it rolled
And it rolled into Uncle Sammy's door
A few got richer, and richer, and richer
But the poor folks kept but gettin' poor
Well, the workers in the world did fight a revolution
To chase out the gamblers from their land
Farmers, an' peasants, an' workers in the city
Fought together on their five-year plans
The soul and the spirit of the workers' revolution
Spread across ever' nation in this world;
From Italy to China, to Europe and to India
An' the blood of the workers it did spill
This spirit split the wind to Boston, Massachussetts
With Coolidge on the Governor's chair
Troopers an' soldiers, the guards and the spies
Fought the workers that brought the spirit there
Sacco and Vanzetti had preached to the workers
They was carried up to Old Judge Thayer
They was charged with killin' the payroll guards
And they died in the Charlestown chair
Well, the world shook harder on the night they died
Than 'twas shaken by that great World War
More millions did march for Sacco and Vanzetti
Than did march for the great war lords
Well, the peasants, the farmers, the towns and the cities
An' the hills and the valleys they did ring
Hindenburg an' Wilson, an' Harding, Hoover, Coolidge
Never heard this many voices sing
The zigzag lightning, the rumbles of the thunder
And the singing of the clouds blowing by
The flood and the storm for Sacco and Vanzetti
Caused the rich man to pull his hair and cry
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2. |
Old Judge Thayer
04:57
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Old Judge Thayer take your shackle off of me;
Old Judge Thayer, take your shackle off of me;
Turn your key and set me free
Old Judge Thayer take your shackle off of me
The monkey unlocked the courthouse door
The elephant oiled the hardwood floor;
In did jump the kangaroo
In did hop the rabbits, too
Next in come the two baboons
Next in rolled a dusty storm
Next in waddled the polar bear
To keep the judge and jury warm
Everybody knows that the mocking bird
Wrote down every word he heard
The lawyers all were sly
With foxy nose and a foxy eye
The 'possum used the big stiff broom
Then he polished the new spittoon;
Up did smile the crocodile
Said, "Here comes the jury down the aisle."
The old lady Catfish asked the Trout
"What is this trial all about?"
The little baby Suckerfish up and said
"The judge has caught him a couple of Reds."
The Rattlesnake asked the Bumble Bee
"Whose this Sacco and' Vanzetti?
"Are they the men," said Mammy Quail
"That shot the clerks at the Slater Mill?"
The Mosquito sung out with his wings
"I was there and saw the whole blamed thing;
I saw the robbers fire their guns
But I didn't see these men, neither one."
The big-eyed Owl she looked around
"They say that Sacco's cap was found
Down on Pearl Street on the ground
Where the payroll guards both got shot down."
"That cap don't fit on Sacco's head,"
A big black Crow flapped up and said
"They tried that cap on Sacco here
And it fell down around both his ears."
The Camel asked the old Giraffe
"Did these two fellows duck the draft
By running down below the Mexican line
To keep from fighting on the rich man's side?"
The limber Duck did rattle his bill
"All the ducks and Geese are flying still
Down toward Mexico's warm sun
To try to dodge the rich man's gun."
Up did waddle the Lucey Goose
"I think these men ought to be turned loose
But old Judge Thayer has swore to friends
These men will get the chair or noose."
And when the guilty verdict came
And seven years in jail they'd laid
And when these two men there did die
The animals met on the earth and sky
"Oh see what fear and greed can do
See how it killed these sons so true?
Us varmints has got to get together too
Before Judge Thayer kills me and you."
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3. |
Suassos Lane
02:39
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Goodbye, my comrades
Goodbye, my north Plymouth
Goodbye to the Boston harbor
Goodbye, Suassos Lane
Suassos Lane is just an alley
Up here in old north Plymouth
You saw my fish cart
Roll here in Suassos Lane
They say I killed him
Said I killed the payroll carrier
Over there in South Braintree
Thirty-five miles from Suassos Lane
My name is Lefevre Brini
On the same day, Bart Vanzetti
Brought fish to the Cherry Court
One block from Suassos Lane
My name is Joseph Rosen
I am a woolen peddler
I sold Vanzetti a roll of cloth
That day in Suassos Lane
I'm Mrs. Alphonsine Brini
Mr. Rosen and Bart Vanzetti
Showed me the cloth with big hole in it
One block from Suassos Lane
My name is Melvin Corl
I's paintin' my fishin' schooner
Vanzetti talked to me an hour
About a mile from Suassos Lane
How could I be in South Braintree
Killin' men there in front of the fact'ry
When all these friends and others saw me
Cartin' my fish in Suassos Lane?
I tell you workin' people
Fight hard for higher wages
Fight to kill blackmarket prices
This is why you take my life
I tell you workin' people
Fight hard for cleaner houses
Fight hard for the wife and children
That's why they took my life
Suassos Lane is just an alley
Up here in old north Plymouth
You saw my fish cart
Roll here in Suassos Lane
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Oh, Sacco, Sacco
Oh, Nicola Sacco
Oh, Sacco, Sacco
I just want to sing your name
Sacco, Sacco, Sacco
Sacco, oh, Sacco, Nicola
Sacco, Sacco
I just want to sing your name
Oh, Rosie, Rosie
Oh, Miss Rosie Sacco
Oh, Rosie, Rosie
I just want to sing your name
I never did see you, see you
I never did get to meet you
I just heard your story, story
And I just want to sing your name
Hey, hey, Bart Vanzetti
Hey, hey, Bart Vanzetti
You made speeches for the workers, workers
Well, I just want to sing your name
Oh, Sacco, Vanzetti
Oh, Sacco, Vanzetti
Sacco, Sacco, Vanzetti
I just want to sing your name
Hey, Judge Webster Thayer
Ho, ho, Judge Webster Thayer
Hey, hey, old Judge Webster Thayer
I don't want to sing your name
Bart Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco
Bart Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco
Come here lookin' for the land of freedom
I just want to sing your name
Vanzetti sold fish around Plymouth Harbor
Sacco was a shoe factory's best shoe-cutter
All my sons and all of my daughters
They're gonna help me sing your name
Oh, Sacco, Sacco
Hey, hey, Bart Vanzetti
Your wife and kids and all your family
I just want to sing your name
Oh, Sacco, Vanzetti
Hey, Sacco, Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco, Bart Vanzetti
I just want to sing your name
Oh, ho, ho, ho
Ho, ho, ho, ho
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho
Ho, ho, ho, ho
Yes, yes, yes, yes
Yes, yes, yes, yes
Yes, yes, yes, yes
Well, I just want to sing your name
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5. |
Root Hog And Die
03:00
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Say, there, did you hear the news?
Sacco worked at trimming shoes;
Vanzetti was a peddling man
Pushed his fish cart with his hands
Two good men a long time gone
Two good men a long time gone
Sacco and Vanzetti are gone
Left me here to sing this song
Sacco was born across the sea
Somewhere over in Italy;
Vanzetti was born of parents fine
Drank the best Italian wine
Sacco sailed the sea one day
Landed up in Boston Bay;
Vanzetti sailed the ocean blue
Landed up in Boston, too
Two good men a long time gone
Two good men a long time gone
Two good men a long time gone
Left me here to sing this song
Sacco's wife three children had
Sacco was a family man;
Vanzetti was a dreaming man
His book was always in his hand
Sacco earned his bread and butter
Being the factory's best shoe cutter;
Vanzetti spoke both day and night
Told the workers how to fight
Two good men a long time gone
Two good men a long time gone
Two good men a long time gone
Left me here to sing this song
I'll tell you if you ask me
'Bout this payroll robbery;
Two clerks was killed by the shoe factory
On the street in South Braintree
Judge Thayer told his friends around
He would cut the radicals down;
"Anarchist bastards" was the name
Judge Thayer called these two good men
I'll tell you the prosecutors' names
Katsman, Adams, Williams, Kane;
The judge and lawyers strutted down
They done more tricks than circus clowns
Two good men a long time gone
Two good men a long time gone
Two good men a long time gone
Left me here to sing this song
Vanzetti docked in 1908;
He slept along the dirty streets
He told the workers "Organize"
And on the electric chair he dies
All you people ought to be like me
And work like Sacco and Vanzetti;
And every day find some ways to fight
On the union side for workers' rights
But I've got no time to tell this tale
The dicks and bulls are on my trail;
But I'll remember these two good men
That died to show me how to live
Two good men a long time gone
Two good men a long time gone
Two good men a long time gone
Left me here to sing this song
All you people in Suassos Lane
Sing this song and sing it plain
All you folks that's coming along
Jump in with me, and sing this song
Two good men a long time gone
Two good men a long time gone
Two good men a long time gone
Left me here to sing this song
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6. |
Two Good Men
04:25
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