Sacco & Vanzetti chords

Christy Moore

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    Oh, say there, did you here the news?
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    Sacco worked at trimming shoes,
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    Vanzetti was a travelling man, pushed his cart round with his hand.

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Two good men's a long time gone, Sacco and Vanzetti are gone,
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Two good men's a long time gone, they left me here to sing this song.

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    Sacco was born across the sea, somewhere over in Italy,
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    Vanzetti born of parents fine, drank the best Italian wine.
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    Sacco sailed the sea one day, landed up in the Boston bay,
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    Vanzetti sailed the ocean blue, ended up in Boston, too.

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Two good men's a long time gone, Sacco and Vanzetti are gone,
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Two good men's a long time gone, they left me here to sing this song.

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    Sacco was a family man, Sacco's wife three children had,
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    Vanzetti was a dreaming man, his books were always in his hand.
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    Sacco made his bread and butter being the factory's best shoe cutter,
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    Vanzetti worked both day and night, showed the people how to fight.

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Two good men's a long time gone, Sacco and Vanzetti are gone,
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Two good men's a long time gone, they left me here to sing this song.

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    I'll tell you if you ask me about this pay-roll robbery,
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    two clerks were shot in the shoe factory on the streets of old Braintree.
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    I'll tell you the prosecutors' names: Katman, Admans, Williams, Kane,
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    them and the judge were the best of friends,
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    did more tricks than circus clowns.

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    The judge he told his friends around,       he'd put them rebels down,
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    “Communist bastards” was the name,
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     the judge he gave these two fine men.

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Two good men's a long time gone, Sacco and Vanzetti are gone,
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Two good men's a long time gone, they left me here to sing this song.

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    I ain't got time to tell the tales,
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    because the branch and the bulls are on my tail.
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    I won't forget these men who died to show us people how to live.
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    All you people in Window Lane  sing this song and sing it plain 
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    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,
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Two good men's a long time gone, they left me here to sing this song.