Two Good Men

	  		
Intro: E A E B7 E 

verse 1 
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Say, there, did you hear the news? 
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Sacco worked at trimming shoes; 
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Vanzetti was a peddling man, 
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Pushed his fish cart with his hands. 

 
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Two good men a long time gone, 
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Two good men a long time gone 
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Sacco, Vanzetti are gone, 
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Left me here to sing this song. 


verse 2 
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Sacco was born across the sea 
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Somewhere over in Italy; 
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Vanzetti was born of parents fine, 
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Drank the best Italian wine. 

verse 3 
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Sacco sailed the sea one day, 
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Landed up in Boston Bay; 
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Vanzetti sailed the ocean blue, 
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Landed up in Boston, too. 


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Two good men a long time gone, 
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Two good men a long time gone 
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Two good men a long time gone, 
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Left me here to sing this song. 


verse 4 
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Sacco's wife three children had, 
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Sacco was a family man; 
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Vanzetti was a dreaming man, 
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His book was always in his hand. 

Verse 5 
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Sacco earned his bread and butter 
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Being the factory's best shoe cutter; 
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Vanzetti spoke both day and night, 
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Told the workers how to fight. 


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Two good men a long time gone, 
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Two good men a long time gone 
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Two good men a long time gone, 
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Left me here to sing this song. 


Verse 6 

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I'll tell you if you ask me 
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'Bout this payroll robbery; 
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Two clerks was killed by the shoe factory 
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On the street in South Braintree. 

Verse 7 
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Judge Thayer told his friends around 
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He would cut the radicals down; 
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Anarchist bastards was the name 
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Judge Thayer called these two good men. 

Verse 8 
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I'll tell you the prosecutors' names, 
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Katsman, Adams, Williams, Kane; 
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The judge and lawyers strutted down, 
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They done more tricks than circus clowns. 

 
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Two good men a long time gone, 
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Two good men a long time gone 
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Two good men a long time gone, 
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Left me here to sing this song. 


Verse 9 
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Vanzetti docked here in 1908; 
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He slept along the dirty streets, 
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He told the workers “Organize” 
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And on the electric chair he dies. 

verse 10 
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All you people ought to be like me, 
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And work like Sacco and Vanzetti; 
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And every day find some ways to fight 
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On the union side for workers' rights. 

verse 11 
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I've got no time to tell this tale, 
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The dicks and bulls are on my trail; 
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But I'll remember these two good men 
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That died to show me how to live. 

 
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Two good men a long time gone, 
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Two good men a long time gone 
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Two good men a long time gone, 
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Left me here to sing this song. 


verse 12 
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All you people in Suassos Lane 
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Sing this song and sing it plain. 
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All you folks that's coming along, 
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Jump in with me, and sing this song. 

 
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Two good men a long time gone, 
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Two good men a long time gone 
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Two good men a long time gone, 
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Left me here to sing this song.