Two Good Men lyrics

Song information

Artist: Woody Guthrie
Album: Ballads Of Sacco & Vanzetti

Lyrics

Say, there, did you hear the news?
Sacco worked at trimmin' shoes;
Vanzetti was a peddlin' man
Pushed his fish cart with his hand
Two good men a long time gone
Two good men a long time gone
Sacco an' vanzetti are gone
[Alternate: two good men a long time gone] left me here to sing this song
Sacco's born across the sea
Somewhere over in italy;
Vanzetti born of parents fine
Drank the best italian wine
Sacco sailed the sea one day
Landed up in the boston bay
Vanzetti sailed the ocean blue
An' landed up in boston, too

Sacco's wife three children had;
Sacco was a family man
Vanzetti was a dreamin' man
His book was always in his hands

Sacco earned his bread and butter
Bein' the factory's best shoe cutter
Vanzetti spoke both day and night
Told the workers how to fight

I'll tell you if you ask me
'Bout this payroll robbery
Two clerks was killed by the shoe fact'ry
On the streets in south braintree

Judge thayer told his friends around
That he had cut the radicals down
"Anarchist bastard" was the name
Judge thayer called these two good men

I'll tell you the prosecutor's name
Katzman, adams, williams, kane
The judge and lawyers strutted down
They done more tricks than circus clowns

Vanzetti docked in nineteen eight;
Slept along the dirty street
Told the workers "organize,"
And on the 'lectric chair he dies

All you people ought to be like me
And work like sacco and vanzetti
And everyday find ways to fight
On the union side for the workers' rights

Well, I ain't got time to tell this tale
The dicks and bulls are on my trail
But I'll remember these two good men
That died to show me how to live

All you people in suassos lane
Sing this song and sing it plain
All you folks that's comin' along
Jump in with me and sing this song

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

"Ballads Of Sacco & Vanzetti" album track list