Sacco & Vanzetti

C 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 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. 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 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. 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 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 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 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. 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.