Sacco & Vancetti    (sample)

 

            C                                

1. Oh, say there, did you here the news?

      G                        C

    Sacco worked at trimming shoes,

            C                                        G                                              C

    Vanzetti was a travelling man, pushed his cart round with his hand.

 

   F                                           C       G                                   C       - C7

Two good men's a long time gone, Sacco and Vanzetti are gone,

   F                                           C              G                     G7          C

Two good men's a long time gone, they left me here to sing this song.

 

      C                                                 G                           C

2. Sacco was born across the sea, somewhere over in Italy,

            C                                        G                              C

    Vanzetti born of parents fine, drank the best Italian wine.

      C                                              G                                    C

    Sacco sailed the sea one day, landed up in the Boston bay,

             C                                        G                              C

    Vanzetti sailed the ocean blue, ended up in Boston, too.

 

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      C                                      G                                        C

3. Sacco was a family man, Sacco's wife three children had,

            C                                               G                                     C

    Vanzetti was a dreaming man, his books were always in his hand.

      C                                                   G                                            C

    Sacco made his bread and butter being the factory's best shoe cutter,

            C                                                   G                                      C

    Vanzetti worked both day and night, showed the people how to fight.

 

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    C                                         G                               C

4. I'll tell you if you ask me about this pay-roll robbery,

             C                                                    G                                         C

    two clerks were shot in the shoe factory on the streets of old Braintree.

    C                                                        G                                          C

    I'll tell you the prosecutors' names: Katman, Admans, Williams, Kane,

       C                              

    them and the judge were the best of friends,

 

 

 

 

 

 

     G                                         C

    did more tricks than circus clowns.

 

            C                                                - G                                     C

5. The judge he told his friends around,       he'd put them rebels down,

        C

    “Communist bastards” was the name,

            G                                              C

     the judge he gave these two fine men.

 

   F                                           C       G                                   C       - C7

Two good men's a long time gone, Sacco and Vanzetti are gone,

   F                                           C              G                     G7          C

Two good men's a long time gone, they left me here to sing this song.

 

        C                                                

6. I ain't got time to tell the tales,

           G                                                              C

    because the branch and the bulls are on my tail.

         C                                                      G                                 C

    I won't forget these men who died to show us people how to live.

     C                                                 G                                       C

    All you people in Window Lane, sing this song and sing it plain,

     C                                     G                                     C

    everybody here tonight, sing this song, we'll get it right.

 

+ CHORUS

 

    (Woody Guthrie / Christy Moore)