You Souls Of Boston
Woody Guthrie

You souls of Boston bow your heads
Our two most noble sons are dead
Sacco and Vanzetti both have died
And drifted out with the Boston tide

'Twas on the outskirts of this town
Some bandits shot two pay clerks down
On old Pearl Street in South Braintree
They grabbed that money and rolled away

Sacco and Vanzetti got arrested then
On a trolley car by the plainclothesmen
Carried down to the Brockton jail
And laid away in a lonesome cell

The folks in Plymouth town did say
Vanzetti sold fish in Suassos Lane
His fish cart was thirty two miles away
From old Pearl Street this fatal day

Sacco's family hugged and kissed their dad
Said Take this family picture to the passport man
He was in that office forty-odd miles away
From old Pearl Street his fatal day

One lady by the name of Eva Splaine
Saw the robbers jump in their car and drive away
For a second and a half she seen this speeding car
And she swore Sacco was the bandit man

It was twenty or thirty or fifty more
Said Sacco was not in that robbers' car
Judge Webster Thayer stuck by Eva Splaine
Said Sacco was their guilty man

Mrs Sacco was heavy then with child
She walked to Sacco's cell and cried
The Morelli Gang just down the corridor
Signed confessions they killed those payroll guards

We seen Mrs. Sacco pregnant there
We heard her cry and tear her hair
We had to ease our guilty hearts
And admit we killed those payroll guards

Judge Webster Thayer could not allow
The Morelli Gang's confession to stop him now
Sacco and Vanzetti are union men
And that verdict guilty must come in

The bullet expert took the stand
Said the bullets from the bodies of the two dead men
Could not have been fired from Sacco's gun
Nor from Vanzetti's gun have come

It was sixty-three days this trial did last
Then seven dark years come a crippling past
Locked down in that mean old Charlestown Jail
Then by an electric spark were killed

Old Boston City was a dark old town
This summer's night in June, the switch went down
The people they cried and marched and sung
In every tongue this world around

You souls of Boston, bow your heads
Our two most noble sons are dead
Where the people's army marches now to fight
Sacco and Vanzetti will give us light


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  1913 Massacre   A Dollar Down   A Dollar Down and a Dollar a Week   A Picture From Life's Other Side   Ach Hätte Ich Ein Bierchen (freie &uu...   Ach Hätte Ich Ein Bierchen (freie übersetzun...   Aginst Th' Law   Aginst Th' Law   Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way   Ain't Nobody's Business   Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way   Airline To Heaven   All Work Together   All You Fascists   Another Man's Done Gone   Another Man's Done Gone   At My Window Sad & Lonely   Bed On The Floor   Belle Starr   Better World A-comin'   Biggest Thing Man Has Ever Done   Bile Them Cabbage Down   Billy The Kid   Birds & Ships   Black Wind Blowing   Blowin' Down This Road   Brown Eyes   Brown's Ferry Blues   Buffalo Skinners   Bury Me Beneath the Willow   Bury Me Beneath the Willow   Bury Me Beneath the Willow   Bury Me Beneath The Willow   Cadillac Eight   California Stars   Chisholm Trail   Christ For President   Clean-O   Cocaine Blues   Columbia River   Columbia's Waters   Columbia’s Waters   Columbus Stockade   Come See   Crawdad Song   Dance A Little Longer   Dance Around   Danville Girl, No. 2   Dear Mrs. Roosevelt   Deportee   Deportees   Dirty Overhauls   Do Re Mi   Don't You Push Me Down   Don't You Push Me Down   Dust Bowl Blues   Dust Bowl Refugee   Dust Cain't Kill Me   Dust Can't Kill Me   Dust Can't Kill Me   Dust Pneumonia Blues   Dust Storm Disaster   Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good To Know Yuh...   Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good To Kno...   East Texas Red   Eisler On The Go   End Of My Line   Ezekiel Saw The Wheel   Farmer-Labor Train   Gambling Man   Get Along Little Doggies   God And Joseph   God's Promise   God's Promise   Goin' Down The Road   Going Down The Road   Going Down the Road (Feeling Bad)   Going Down The Road Feeling Bad   Gonna Roll The Union On   Goodbye Centralia   Goodnight Irene   Grand Coulee Dam   Grand Coulee Dam [*]   Greenback Dollar   Guitar Rag   Gypsy Davy   Hang Knot   Hangknot, Slipknot   Hanuka Bell   Hanuka Dance   Hanuka Gelt   Hanuka Tree   Hanuka's Flame   Happy Joyous Hanuka   Hard Ain't It Hard   Hard Ain't It Hard   Hard Ain’t It Hard   Hard Travelin'   Hard Travelin'   Hard, Ain't It Hard   Heaven   Hesitating Beauty   Hey Lolly Lolly   Hey, Lolly Lolly   Hobo's Lullaby   Hobo's Lullaby   Hoodoo Voodoo   Howdido   I Ain't Got No Home   I Ain't Got No Home (In This World Anymore)   I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore   I Ain't Got No Home   I Ain’t Got No Home   I Guess I Planted   I Just Want To Sing Your Name   I Ride An Old Paint   I Take My Penny   I've Got To Know   I've Got To Know   Ilsa Koch   Ingrid Bergman   It Takes A Married Man To Sing A Worried Song   Jackhammer Blues   Jackhammer John   Jarama   Jarama Valley   Jesse James   Jesse James And His Boys   Jesus Christ   Jesus Christ   Jig Along Home   Jiggy Jiggy Bum   Joe Dimaggio Done It Again   John Henry   Jolly Banker   Just The Facts Maam   Keep That Oil A-Rollin'   Keep That Oil A-Rollin'   Keep Your Skillet Good And Greasy   Kissin' On   Little Boxes Beatnik Version   Little Darling Pal Of Mine   Little Seed   Lonesome Day   Lonesome Valley   Los Angeles New Year's Flood   Los Angeles New Year’s Flood   Lost John   Ludlow Massacre   Ludlow Massacre   Mail Myself To You   Mean Talking Blues   Mermaid's Avenue   Mermaid's Avenue   Merry-go-round   More Pretty Girls Than One   My Daddy   My Daddy (flies A Ship In The Sky)   My Dolly   My Flying Saucer   My Peace   My Secret   Narrator [Speech]   New Found Land   New York Town   Nine Hundred Miles   Nine Hundred Miles (Instrumental)   Ninety Mile Wind   Oklahoma Hills   Old Judge Thayer   One By One   One Day Old   Oregon Trail   Pastures Of Plenty   Pastures of Plenty [*]   Peace Call   Philadelphia Lawyer   Pick It Up   Plane Wreck At Los Gatos   Poor Boy   Poor Lazarus   Post War Breakout   Pretty And Shiny-o   Pretty Boy Floyd   Put My Little Shoes Away   Put Your Finger In The Air   Race You Down The Mountain   Ramblin' Blues   Ramblin' Round   Ramblin' Round   Ranger's Command   Ranger's Command   Rangers Command   Reckless Talk   Red Wine   Remember The Mountain Bed   Riding In My Car (Car Song)   Roll On   Roll On Columbia   Roll, Columbia, Roll   Root Hog & Die   Root Hog And Die   Sacco's Letter To His Son   Sally, Don't You Grieve   Sally, Don't You Grieve   Secret Of The Sea   She Came Along To Me   Ship In The Sky   Sinking Of The Reuben James   Sinking Of The Rueben James   Sixteen Tons   Slipknot (Hangknot, Slipknot)   So Long -- It's Been Good To Know Yuh   So Long -- It's Been Good To Know Yuh   So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh   So Long, It's Been Good To Know Yuh (Dusty Old Dus...   So Long, It’s Been Good To Know Yuh   Song Of The Grand Coulee Dam   Sowing On The Mountain   Springfield Mountain   Stagolee   Stepstone   Stewball   Suassos Lane   Takin’ It Easy   Talkin' Hard Luck Blues   Talking Blues   Talking Columbia   Talking Dust Bowl   Talking Dust Bowl Blues   Talking Dust Bowl Blues (Alternate Take)   Talking Fishing Blues   Talking Hard Work   Talking Merchant Marine   Talking Merchant Marine (Talking Sailor)   Talking Sailor   Talking Subway   Talking Union   The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done (A.K.A. T...   The Dying Doctor   The Dying Miner   The Farmer-Labor Train   The Flood And The Storm   The Gambler   The Grand Coulee Dam   The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)   The Jolly Banker   The Ladies' Auxiliary   The Ladies' Auxiliary   The Many And The Few   The Midnight Special   The Ranger's Command   The Rising Sun Blues   The Sinking Of The Reuben James   The Unwelcome Guest   The Wreck Of The Old '97   They Laid Jesus Christ In His Grave   This Land Is Your Land   This Land is Your Land (Alternate Version)   This Land Is Your Land (Standard Version)   This Land Is Your Land [Folk Melody]   This Morning I Am Born Again   Tom Joad   Tom Joad (Part 1)   Tom Joad (Part 2)   Two Good Men   Union Burying Ground   Union Maid   Union Maid (Excerpt)   Vanzetti's Letter   Vanzetti's Rock   Vanzetti's Rock   VD City   Vigilante Man   Waiting At The Gate   Wake Up   Walt Whitman\u00c2\u00b4s Niece   Walt Whitman´s Niece   Washington Talkin' Blues   Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key   We Shall Be Free   We Welcome To Heaven   What Are We Waiting On?   When That Great Ship Went Down (The Great Ship)   When The Curfew Blows   When The Yanks Go Marching In   Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?   Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?   Why, Oh Why   Will Rogers Highway   Worried Man Blues

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