《Vanzetti’s Letter》歌词

[00:00:00] Vanzetti's Letter - Woody Guthrie
[00:00:01] Written by:Woody Guthrie
[00:00:02] The year it is 1927
[00:00:06] An' the day is the third day of may
[00:00:11] Town is the city called Boston an' our address this dark Dedham jail
[00:00:18] To your honor
[00:00:19] The Governor Fuller to the council of Massachussetts state
[00:00:26] We Bartolomo Vanzetti an' Nicola Sacco do say
[00:00:34] Confined to our jail here at Dedham an' under the sentence of death
[00:00:41] We pray you do exercise your powers an' look at the facts of our case
[00:00:48] We do not ask you for a pardon
[00:00:51] For a pardon would admit of our guilt
[00:00:55] Since we are both innocent workers we have no guilt to admit
[00:01:02] We are both born by parents in Italy can't speak English too well
[00:01:09] Our friends of labor are writin' these words back of the barsin our cell
[00:01:17] Our friends say if we speak too plain sir we may turn your feelings away
[00:01:24] Widen these canyons between us but we risk our life to talk plain
[00:01:31] We think sir that each human bein' is in
[00:01:35] Close touch with all of man's kind
[00:01:38] We think sir that each human bein' knows right from the wrong in his mind
[00:01:46] We talk to you here as a man sir even knowing our opinions divide
[00:01:53] We didn't kill the guards at South Braintree nor dream of such a terrible crime
[00:02:00] We call your eye to this fact sir
[00:02:03] We work with our hand and our brain
[00:02:07] These robberies an' killings were done sir by professional bandit men
[00:02:14] Sacco has been a good cutter Mrs Sacco their money has saved
[00:02:21] I Vanzetti l could have saved money but I gave it as fast as received
[00:02:28] I'm a dreamer a speaker an' a writer I fight on the working folks' side
[00:02:35] Sacco is Boston's fastest shoe trimmer and he talks to the husbands and wives
[00:02:41] We hunted your land and we found it hoped we'd find freedom of mind
[00:02:48] Built up your land
[00:02:50] This land of the free an' this is what we come to find
[00:02:55] If we was those killers good Governor we'd not be so dumb and so blind
[00:03:01] To pass out our handbills
[00:03:03] And make workers' speeches out here by the scene of the crime
[00:03:08] Those fifteen thousands of dollars the lawyers and judge said we took
[00:03:15] Do we sir dress up like two gentlemen with that much in our pocketbook
[00:03:21] Our names are on the long list of radicals of the Federal Government sir
[00:03:28] They said that we needed watching as we peddled our literature
[00:03:34] Judge Thayer's mind's made up sir when we walked into the court
[00:03:40] Well he called us anarchistic bastards said lots of other things worse
[00:03:49] They brought people down there to Brockton to look through the bars of our cell
[00:03:56] Made us act out the motions of the killers
[00:03:59] And still not so many could tell
[00:04:04] Before the trial ever started the jury foreman did say
[00:04:10] An' he cussed us an' said damn they well they'd ought to hang anyway
[00:04:18] Our fatal mistake was carryin' our guns about which we had to tell lies
[00:04:25] To keep the police from raiding the homes of workers believing like us
[00:04:32] A labor paper or a picture a letter from a radical friend
[00:04:39] An old cheap gun like you keep around home would torture good women and men
[00:04:45] We all feared deporting and whipping torments to make us confess
[00:04:52] The place where the workers are meeting the house your name and address
[00:04:59] Well the officers said we feared something which they called a consciousness of guilt
[00:05:06] We was afraid of wreckin' more homes and seein' more workers' blood spilt
[00:05:13] Well the very first question they asked us was not about killing the clerks
[00:05:20] But things about our labor movement and how our trade union works
[00:05:27] Oh how could our jury see clearly when the lawyers and judges and cops
[00:05:34] Called us low type Italians said we looked just like regular wops
[00:05:40] Draft dodgers gun packers anarchists these vulgar sounding names
[00:05:47] Blew dust in the eyes of jurors the crowd in the courtroom the same
[00:05:53] We do not believe sir that torture beatings and killings and pains
[00:06:00] Will lift man's eyes to a highest of view an' break his bilbos and chains
[00:06:07] We believe that you must struggle for freedom before your freedom you'll gain
[00:06:14] Freedom from fear sir and greed sir and your freedom to think higher things
[00:06:21] This fight sir is not a new battle we did not make it last night
[00:06:27] 'Twas fought by God win Shelly Pisacane Tolstoy and Christ
[00:06:33] It's bigger than the atoms
[00:06:35] An' the sands of the desert planets that roll in the sky
[00:06:40] Till workers get rid of their robbers well
[00:06:43] It's worse sir to live than to die
[00:06:46] Your excellency we're not askin' pardon but askin' to be set free
[00:06:52] With liberty and pride sir and honor and a pardon we will not receive
[00:06:59] A pardon you given to criminals who've broken the laws of the land
[00:07:06] We don't ask you for pardon sir because we are innocent men
[00:07:13] Well if you shake your head
[00:07:14] No dear Governor of course our doom it is sealed
[00:07:19] We hold up our heads like two sons of men
[00:07:22] Seven years in these cells of steel
[00:07:26] We walk down this corridor to death sir like workers have walked it before
[00:07:33] But we'll work in our working class struggle if we live a thousand lives more
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