Guitar chords Sacco & Vanzetti

Key:  C

                  
C
 
        Oh, say there, did you here the news?
          
G
                            
C
 
        Sacco worked at trimming shoes,
                
C
                                                    
G
                                                          
C
 
        Vanzetti was a travelling man, pushed his cart round with his hand.
  
F
                                                  
C
        
G
                                          
C
    
C7
 
Two good men's a long time gone, Sacco and Vanzetti are gone,
  
F
                                                  
C
                  
G
                            
G7
              
C
 
Two good men's a long time gone, they left me here to sing this song.
          
C
                                                          
G
                              
C
 
        Sacco was born across the sea, somewhere over in Italy,
                
C
                                                      
G
                                        
C
 
        Vanzetti born of parents fine, drank the best Italian wine.
          
C
                                                          
G
                                          
C
 
        Sacco sailed the sea one day, landed up in the Boston bay,
                  
C
                                                    
G
                                    
C
 
        Vanzetti sailed the ocean blue, ended up in Boston, too.
  
F
                                                  
C
        
G
                                          
C
    
C7
 
Two good men's a long time gone, Sacco and Vanzetti are gone,
  
F
                                                  
C
                  
G
                            
G7
              
C
 
Two good men's a long time gone, they left me here to sing this song.
          
C
                                            
G
                                                  
C
 
        Sacco was a family man, Sacco's wife three children had,
                
C
                                                        
G
                                              
C
 
        Vanzetti was a dreaming man, his books were always in his hand.
          
C
                                                            
G
                                                        
C
 
        Sacco made his bread and butter being the factory's best shoe cutter,
                
C
                                                                
G
                                              
C
 
        Vanzetti worked both day and night, showed the people how to fight.
  
F
                                                  
C
        
G
                                          
C
    
C7
 
Two good men's a long time gone, Sacco and Vanzetti are gone,
  
F
                                                  
C
                  
G
                            
G7
              
C
 
Two good men's a long time gone, they left me here to sing this song.
        
C
                                                        
G
                                          
C
 
        I'll tell you if you ask me about this pay-roll robbery,
                    
C
                                                                  
G
                                                      
C
 
        two clerks were shot in the shoe factory on the streets of old Braintree.
        
C
                                                                          
G
                                                
C
 
        I'll tell you the prosecutors' names: Katman, Admans, Williams, Kane,
            
C
 
        them and the judge were the best of friends,
        
G
                                                      
C
 
        did more tricks than circus clowns.
                  
C
                                                                
G
                                                  
C
 
        The judge he told his friends around,             he'd put them rebels down,
            
C
 
        “Communist bastards" was the name,
                    
G
                                                      
C
 
          the judge he gave these two fine men.
  
F
                                                  
C
        
G
                                          
C
    
C7
 
Two good men's a long time gone, Sacco and Vanzetti are gone,
  
F
                                                  
C
                  
G
                            
G7
              
C
 
Two good men's a long time gone, they left me here to sing this song.
              
C
 
        I ain't got time to tell the tales,
                
G
                                                                            
C
 
        because the branch and the bulls are on my tail.
              
C
                                                                    
G
                                      
C
 
        I won't forget these men who died to show us people how to live.
        
C
                                                            
G
                                                    
C
 
        All you people in Window Lane, sing this song and sing it plain,
        
C
                                              
G
                                                      
C
 
        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,
  
F
                                                  
C
                  
G
                            
G7
              
C
 
Two good men's a long time gone, they left me here to sing this song.