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[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.

[Chorus 1]
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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.

[Chorus 2]
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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.

[Chorus 2]
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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.

[Chorus 2]
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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.

[Chorus 2]
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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.

[Chorus 2]
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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.