Say, there, did you hear the news?   Sacco worked at trimming shoes   Vanzetti was a peddling man   Pushed his fish cart with his hands      Two good men a long time gone   Two good men a long time gone   Sacco and Vanzetti are gone   Left me here to sing this song      Sacco's born across the sea   Somewhere over in Italy   Vanzetti's born of parents fine   Drank the best Italian wine      Sacco sailed the sea one day   Landed up in Boston Bay   Vanzetti sailed the ocean blue   And landed up in Boston too      Two good men a long time gone   Two good men a long time gone   Two good men a long time gone   Left me here to sing this song      Sacco's wife three children had   Sacco was a family man   Vanzetti was a dreaming man   His book was always in his hands      Sacco earned his bread and butter   Being the factory's best shoe cutter   Vanzetti spoke both day and night   Told the workers how to fight      Two good men a long time gone   Two good men a long time gone   Two good men a long time gone   Left me here to sing this song      I'll tell you if you ask me   'Bout this payroll robbery   Two clerks was killed by the shoe factory   On the street in South Braintree      Judge Thayer told his friends around   That he'd cut the radicals down   Anarchist bastards was the name   Judge Thayer called these two good men      I'll tell you the prosecutors' names   Katsman, Adams, Williams, Kane   The judge and lawyers strutted down   They done more tricks than circus clowns      Two good men a long time gone   Two good men a long time gone   Two good men a long time gone   Left me here to sing this song      Vanzetti docked in 1908   Slept along the dirty streets   Told the workers organize   And on the electric chair he dies      All you people ought to be like me   And work like Sacco and Vanzetti   And every day find some ways to fight   On the union side for workers' rights      Well, I've got no time to tell this tale   The dicks and bulls are on my trail   But I'll remember these two good men   That died to show me how to live      Two good men a long time gone   Two good men a long time gone   Two good men a long time gone   Left me here to sing this song      All you people in Suassos Lane   Sing this song and sing it plain   All you folks that's coming along   Jump in with me and sing this song      Two good men a long time gone   Two good men a long time gone   Two good men a long time gone   Left me here to sing this song