Ludlow Lyrics

In 1914 he was 10 and a trapper boy in Trinidad , life was the coal seam.

Colorado Fuel and Iron reinvented slavery. The company store, central to their strategy.

His Father toiled on his knees and seldom saw his kids or the light of day.

His Mother picked the forest clean to keep them fed.

Along the Purgatoire river Mother Jones at 80 years old lifted men.

Imbued them with the belief that they deserved a life that is just and fair.

The "lickspittle goons" fitted an armored car.

Mounted upon its roof a gatling gun.

Rockefeller had Governor Ammons called in the National Guard

The striking families set up camp in Ludlow.

Tikas went to meet them, and they killed him in cold blood.

Bullets rained down and the tents were set a-flame.

The trapper boy found in a pit 'neathe the bed frame in his mother's arms,

their blackened bones still smoking.