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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