Name: Peter S. Lisker
E-mail address: PeterLisker [at] yahoo [dot] com
Location: Loveland, Colorado

Comment (Wed Sep 24, 2008):
I just discovered a copy of this 33 single after a search of many years. I would be happy to make it
available to anybody. In the mean time here are the words so that future Googlers can enjoy.

I post these words in fond memory of my mother, Tamar Lisker, who passed away thirty years ago
today. She was instrumental in making sure I grew up with an appreciation of Labor and the Labor
Movement.

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Bloody Ludlow by O.V. Hirsch, a Coal Miner

On the east side of the Rockies
Colorado is rich in coal
And the story of the miners
Of Colorado should be told

Colorado it was a poor place
To raise a family in the 1910’s
And the miners of Colorado
Were poor hard working men

Now Rockefeller he was a rich man
He owned the mines and he owned the land
He wrote the law books for Colorado
And the sheriff was his right hand

Yeah Rockefeller he was a rich man
His clothes were fancy and his hands were fair
Because the miners they broke their backs to
Make Rockefeller a millionaire

And we’ll remember Bloody Ludlow
As a miner’s victory cause they fought back
Yeah we’ll remember Bloody Ludlow
As a miner’s victory cause they fought back

Well the miners they took to striking
For a union and a living wage
And when he heard this old Rockefeller
His coward’s heart it filled with rage

Call the militia get vigilantes
We’ll get ‘em guns don’t you spare no cost
Cause we have got to show them dirty miners
That Rockefeller he is the boss

And so one morning without warning
That state militia they opened fire
And by the sundown that miner’s village
Had become a funeral pyre

But the survivors they were undaunted
Got themselves guns and they fought back
And we’ll remember Bloody Ludlow
As a miner’s victory and that’s a fact

Yeah we’ll remember Bloody Ludlow
As a miner’s victory cause they fought back
Yeah we’ll remember Bloody Ludlow
As a miner’s victory cause they fought back

Name: Matthew Cobb
E-mail address: cobb [at] manchester [dot] ac [dot] uk
Location: Manchester, UK

Comment (Sun Jun 1, 2008):
I have been googling the words to Bloody Ludlow for several years now, and have never come back with
anything. Having hit this site, I not only remember Hirsch's name - I discover to my sorrow
that he has died. I had a 45 rpm of the song - heaven knows where I got it from - and it got lost
somewhere in those interminable moves of youth. But the words stuck with me, including through the
Great Miners' Strike in the UK (1984-5) - "a miners' victory, 'cause they fought
back". Great song, wish I had got to know him better. Release it as an MP3!

Name: Jim Ransom
E-mail address: jamesbransom [at] gmail [dot] com
Location:

Comment (Fri Dec 21, 2007):
Salute from an old comrade.

--Jim

Name: Patricia Thomas
E-mail address: lostinmacon2 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Location: Macon, |Georgia

Comment (Wed Oct 24, 2007):
Oliver and I got sober together. A friendship developed that lasted well over a decade. He was my
friend, my confidant, my brother. Through him I learned that love truly has no color. He was just
as much my brother as all my beautiful black brothers in 'the hood.' I loved him and I
will miss him for always. Patricia Thomas

Name: Mychele Morrill
E-mail address: mychelem [at] hotmail [dot] com
Location: Portland, OR

Comment (Fri Sep 21, 2007):
I remember Oliver and Joan singing at RCP events in the 70's. While I was just a young girl ,
I remember thinking that they were famous (since they were so talented and from somewhere else) and
how special it was to have "guest" performers.

Peaceful thoughts and prayers for surviving friends and family.