Misc Traditional – Estevan (Guitar)

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In a little mining village

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Scarcely noticed on the map

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Bourgeois guns were turned on workers

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And their life’s blood there did sap.

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No one dreamed of such a slaughter

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In that town of Estevan.

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That armed thugs with guns and bullets

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Would shoot men with empty hands.

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Just a protest from the miners.

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And boss bullets then did fly,

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Caring not who was the target

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Or the number that would die

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Blazing forth nine hundred bullets

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Bodies full of lead did fill,

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Murdered three, and wounded twenty-

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But the Cause they could not kill.

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Three more martyrs for the miners,

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Three more murders for the boss

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Brutal laws, to crush the workers

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Who dare fight in Freedom’s cause.

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As those miners lay a-dying

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In their agony and pain

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Whispered, “Though we die for freedom,

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Yet we do not die in vain.”

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“For we know our class will triumph

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Whey they shall united stand;

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They will take the world for labor

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And the workers rule the land.

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Then the workers’ day of vengeance

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Will be proclaimed with each breath;

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Labor’s cause is right and mighty

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And beyond the reach of death.”

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Come unite! Come unite!

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And for freedom we will fight!

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Workers of the world, awaken!

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Workers of the world, unite!