Suassos Lane - Woody Guthrie

Goodbye, my comrades

Goodbye, my north Plymouth

Goodbye to the Boston harbor

Goodbye, Suassos Lane

Suassos Lane is just an alley

Up here in old north Plymouth

You saw my fish cart

Roll here in Suassos Lane

They say I killed him

Said I killed the payroll carrier

Over there in South Braintree

Thirty-five miles from Suassos Lane

My name is Lefevre Brini

On the same day, Bart Vanzetti

Brought fish to the Cherry Court

One block from Suassos Lane

My name is Joseph Rosen

I am a woolen peddler

I sold Vanzetti a roll of cloth

That day in Suassos Lane

I’m Mrs. Alphonsine Brini

Mr. Rosen and Bart Vanzetti

Showed me the cloth with big hole in it

One block from Suassos Lane

My name is Melvin Corl

I’s paintin' my fishin' schooner

Vanzetti talked to me an hour

About a mile from Suassos Lane

How could I be in South Braintree

Killin' men there in front of the fact’ry

When all these friends and others saw me

Cartin' my fish in Suassos Lane?

I tell you workin' people

Fight hard for higher wages

Fight to kill blackmarket prices

This is why you take my life

I tell you workin' people

Fight hard for cleaner houses

Fight hard for the wife and children

That’s why they took my life

Suassos Lane is just an alley

Up here in old north Plymouth

You saw my fish cart

Roll here in Suassos Lane