Two Good Men - Woody Guthrie

Say, there, did you hear the news?

Sacco worked at trimming shoes;

Vanzetti was a peddling man

Pushed his fish cart with his hands

Two good men a long time gone

Two good men a long time gone

Sacco and Vanzetti are gone

Left me here to sing this song

Sacco was born across the sea

Somewhere over in Italy;

Vanzetti was born of parents fine

Drank the best Italian wine

Sacco sailed the sea one day

Landed up in Boston Bay;

Vanzetti sailed the ocean blue

Landed up in Boston, too

Two good men a long time gone

Two good men a long time gone

Two good men a long time gone

Left me here to sing this song

Sacco’s wife three children had

Sacco was a family man;

Vanzetti was a dreaming man

His book was always in his hand

Sacco earned his bread and butter

Being the factory’s best shoe cutter;

Vanzetti spoke both day and night

Told the workers how to fight

Two good men a long time gone

Two good men a long time gone

Two good men a long time gone

Left me here to sing this song

I’ll tell you if you ask me

'Bout this payroll robbery;

Two clerks was killed by the shoe factory

On the street in South Braintree

Judge Thayer told his friends around

He would cut the radicals down;

«Anarchist bastards» was the name

Judge Thayer called these two good men

I’ll tell you the prosecutors' names

Katsman, Adams, Williams, Kane;

The judge and lawyers strutted down

They done more tricks than circus clowns

Two good men a long time gone

Two good men a long time gone

Two good men a long time gone

Left me here to sing this song

Vanzetti docked in 1908;

He slept along the dirty streets

He told the workers «Organize»

And on the electric chair he dies

All you people ought to be like me

And work like Sacco and Vanzetti;

And every day find some ways to fight

On the union side for workers' rights

But I’ve got no 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

Two good men a long time gone

Two good men a long time gone

Two good men a long time gone

Left me here to sing this song

All you people in Suassos Lane

Sing this song and sing it plain

All you folks that’s coming along

Jump in with me, and sing this song

Two good men a long time gone

Two good men a long time gone

Two good men a long time gone

Left me here to sing this song