Woody Guthrie – Two Good Men (Guitar)
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Artist: Woody Guthrie
Song: Two Good Men
This song is played in a fast fingerpicking style.
[Intro]
E A E B7 E
[Verse 1]
E Say, there, did you hear the news? B7 E Sacco worked at trimming shoes; E Vanzetti was a peddling man, B7 E Pushed his fish cart with his hands.
[Chorus 1]
E A E Two good men a long time gone, B7 E Two good men a long time gone A E Sacco, Vanzetti are gone, B7 E Left me here to sing this song.
[Verse 2]
E Sacco was born across the sea B7 E Somewhere over in Italy; E Vanzetti was born of parents fine, B7 E Drank the best Italian wine.
[Verse 3]
E Sacco sailed the sea one day, B7 E Landed up in Boston Bay; E Vanzetti sailed the ocean blue, B7 E Landed up in Boston, too.
[Chorus 2]
E A E Two good men a long time gone, B7 E Two good men a long time gone A E Two good men a long time gone, B7 E Left me here to sing this song.
[Verse 4]
E Sacco's wife three children had, B7 E Sacco was a family man; E Vanzetti was a dreaming man, B7 E His book was always in his hand.
[Verse 5]
E Sacco earned his bread and butter B7 E Being the factory's best shoe cutter; E Vanzetti spoke both day and night, B7 E Told the workers how to fight.
[Chorus 2]
E A E Two good men a long time gone, B7 E Two good men a long time gone A E Two good men a long time gone, B7 E Left me here to sing this song.
[Verse 6]
E I'll tell you if you ask me B7 E 'Bout this payroll robbery; E Two clerks was killed by the shoe factory B7 E On the street in South Braintree.
[Verse 7]
E Judge Thayer told his friends around B7 E He would cut the radicals down; E Anarchist bastards was the name B7 E Judge Thayer called these two good men.
[Verse 8]
E I'll tell you the prosecutors' names, B7 E Katsman, Adams, Williams, Kane; E The judge and lawyers strutted down, B7 E They done more tricks than circus clowns.
[Chorus 2]
E A E Two good men a long time gone, B7 E Two good men a long time gone A E Two good men a long time gone, B7 E Left me here to sing this song.
[Verse 9]
E Vanzetti docked here in 1908; B7 E He slept along the dirty streets, E He told the workers “Organize” B7 E And on the electric chair he dies.
[Verse 10]
E All you people ought to be like me, B7 E And work like Sacco and Vanzetti; E And every day find some ways to fight B7 E On the union side for workers' rights.
[Verse 11]
E I've got no time to tell this tale, B7 E The dicks and bulls are on my trail; E But I'll remember these two good men B7 E That died to show me how to live.
[Chorus 2]
E A E Two good men a long time gone, B7 E Two good men a long time gone A E Two good men a long time gone, B7 E Left me here to sing this song.
[Verse 12]
E All you people in Suassos Lane B7 E Sing this song and sing it plain. E All you folks that's coming along, B7 E Jump in with me, and sing this song.
[Chorus 2]
E A E Two good men a long time gone, B7 E Two good men a long time gone A E Two good men a long time gone, B7 E Left me here to sing this song.