Battle Of Blair Mountain

1921 was the year
 Seems like yesterday to me
 Let me tell you about what happened then
 Back in the mine country
 We were fightin' hard to build a union
 'Cause at forty cents a ton
 There was no way to feed a family
 When the minin' day was done
 The strike had lasted for a year
 When they shot down Smilin' Sid
 He was a lawman who stood up for us miners
 That's the only crime he ever did
 A hundred miners locked up with no trial
 There in Mingo-town
 But the last straw came in Sharples
 When the gunned the women down
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 We're marchin' on to Mingo
 Ten thousand men and countin'
 Here in the hills of West Virginia
 At the Battle of Blair Mountain
 We shouted through the hillsides
 In every union hall
 We're marchin' on to Mingo
 Teach them a lesson, once and all
 We commandeered every freight train
 To the Kentucky line
 Took every car that crossed our path
 And all the guns and ammo we could find
 The union leaders tried to stop us
 Mother Jones told us to turn back
 But we had learned ourselves from the gun thugs
 There's a time to talk and a time to attack
 We had no leader, we didn't need one
 We all knew our way through Logan County
 And we all knew once we got there
 We're gonna hang Sheriff Chapin from a sour apple tree
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 For three days and nights we fought them
 the front was ten miles wide
 Every cop and scab in West Virginia
 Were there on the other side
 They dropped explosives from their airplanes
 Such a thing you never saw
 They shot us with machine guns
 It was the operator's law
 We dug trenches and wore helmets
 That we brought from the Argonne
 All the way from France to Logan
 We fought from dusk to dawn
 President Harding sent in the Army
 And we left our line to them
 But the hills of West Virginia
 Will long remember when
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