In summer camp in 1961 and 1962, we sang a song to the tune of "Go Down, You Murderer, Go Down," the song about Tim Evans, only it was "Go Down, You Murderers, Go Down," and it was about Caryl Chessman and other topics. I remember only scattered lyrics, beginning with the second stanza: For ... he stood his ground, He stood it like a man; He said, "I'm innocent of this crime; My life is in your hands." Oh, go down, you murderers, go down. In France they use the guillotine, In England it's the rope; For Chessman it was the cyanide pill That silenced his last hope. West Virginia miners starve to death In America today; If you don't call that murder, Then you're murderers by trade. ... That killed six million Jews; Now they're back with the Western army And I call that murder too. If you're rich ... You can make it or break it too; But if you're poor you don't stand a devil's chance Where money is the rule. *** Can anyone find the complete lyrics, and tell me who wrote it? TIA.
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