Sacco and Vanzetti
Dave Burns * Track #6 On Last Pit in the Rhondda
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Sacco and Vanzetti by Dave Burns
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The song tells the story of two Italian immigrants who emigrated to the United States at the turn of the century. They became involved in the organisation of labour and were framed and executed for a robbery in 1926.
Sacco and Vanzetti Lyrics
Say there, did you hear the news?
Sacco worked at trimming shoes
Vanzetti was a travelling man
Pushed his cart 'round with his hands
Sacco was born across the sea
Somewhere over in Italy
Vanzetti born of parents fine
Drank the best Italian wine
Two good mens a long time gone
Sacco and Vanzetti have gone
Two good mens a long time gone
They left me here to sing this song
Sacco sailed asea one day
Landed up in Boston Bay
Vanzetti sailed thе ocean blue
Ended up in Boston, too
Sacco was a family man
Sacco's wifе, three children had
Vanzetti was a dreaming man
Books were always in his hand
Two good mens a long time gone
Sacco and Vanzetti have gone
Two good mens a long time gone
They left me here to sing this song
Sacco made his bread and butter
Being the factory's best shoe cutter
Vanzetti worked both day and night
Showed the workers how to fight
I'll tell you, if you ask me
About the payroll robbery
Two clerks were shot in the shoe factory
On the streets of Old Braintree
Two good mens a long time gone
Sacco and Vanzetti have gone
Two good mens a long time gone
They left me here to sing this song
I'll tell you the prosecutors' names
Hatman, Adams, Williams, Cave
They and the judge were the best of friends
They did more tricks than circus clowns
The judge, he told his friends around
He was going to put them radicals down
'Anarchist Bastards' was the name
The judge, he gave these two fine men
Two good mens a long time gone
Sacco and Vanzetti have gone
Two good mens a long time gone
They left me here to sing this song
Vanzetti docked in '98
He crept along the dirty street
He showed the workers organise
In the electric chair, he died
Now all us people ought to be
Like Sacco and Vanzetti
Everyday, find ways to fight
On the union's side, for the workers' rights
Two good mens a long time gone
Sacco and Vanzetti have gone
Two good mens a long time gone
They left me here to sing this song
I ain't got time to tell the tale
'Cause the pigs and the bulls are on my tail
I won't forget those men who died
To show us people how to live
Now everybody here tonight
Sing this song and get it right
All you people in Cardiff town
Sing this song and sing it loud
Two good mens a long time gone
Sacco and Vanzetti have gone
Two good mens a long time gone
They left me here to sing this song