Sacco & Vanzetti

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    Oh, say there, did you here the 
news?
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    Sacco worked at trimming shoes,
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    Vanzetti was a travelling man, 
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pushed his cart round with his hand.

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

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    Sacco was born across the sea, 
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somewhere over in Italy,
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    Vanzetti born of parents fine, 
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drank the best Italian wine.
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    Sacco sailed the sea one day, 
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landed up in the Boston bay,
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    Vanzetti sailed the ocean blue,
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 ended up in Boston, too.

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

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     C                       G    
    Sacco was a family man, 
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Sacco's wife three children had,
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    Vanzetti was a dreaming man, 
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his books were always in his hand.
     C                             
    Sacco made his bread and butter
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 being the factory's best shoe 
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cutter,
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    Vanzetti worked both day and 
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night, showed the people how to 
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fight.

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Two good men's a long time gone, 
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Sacco and Vanzetti are gone,
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Two good men's a long time gone, 
        G               G7        C
they left me here to sing this song.

    C                          
    I'll tell you if you ask me 
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about this pay-roll robbery,
          C                        
    two clerks were shot in the 
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shoe factory on the streets of old 
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Braintree.
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    I'll tell you the prosecutors' 
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names: Katman, Admans, Williams, 
  C
Kane,
      C
    them and the judge were the best
 of friends,
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    did more tricks than circus 
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clowns.

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    The judge he told his friends 
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around,       he'd put them rebels 
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down,
      C
    “Communist bastards" was the 
name,
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     the judge he gave these two 
       C
fine men.

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Two good men's a long time gone, 
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Sacco and Vanzetti are gone,
 F                          C  
Two good men's a long time gone, 
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they left me here to sing this song.

       C
    I ain't got time to tell the 
tales,
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    because the branch and the 
             C
bulls are on my tail.
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    I won't forget these men who 
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died to show us people how to live.
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    All you people in Window Lane, 
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sing this song and sing it plain,
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    everybody here tonight, sing 
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this song, we'll get it right.

 F                          C  
Two good men's a long time gone, 
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Sacco and Vanzetti are gone,
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Two good men's a long time gone, 
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they left me here to sing this song.