Dan Campbell Killed Ginger Goodwin

The Copper Stills perform an original song "Dan Campbell Killed Ginger Goodwin" at the Augusta Grill in Sechelt, BC on November 13.


DAN CAMPBELL KILLED GINGER GOODWIN (written by Grant Olsen)

Chords: FCG GCF (verse & break) DGDGFC FCG (chorus)

Dan Campbell killed Ginger Goodwin
In the mountains over Cumberland
Ginger Goodwin had been hiding there
When the dirty cop murdered him
Was a hero to every miner
And to every working man
But the coal mines gave him black lung
Yet he dared to take a stand

Chorus:
Take a stand, take a stand, take a stand!

Deemed unfit for war
He led a strike instead
But he pissed off all the coal barons
Who wanted Ginger dead
Reversing their decision
They drafted him back to war
But Ginger Goodwin, he was a pacifist
Yet a fighter to the core

Chorus:
To the core, to the core, to the core!

Armed with friends and wilderness
He camped out in the hills
But that dirty cop Dan Campbell
Found him for to kill
Oh the rage and the fury felt
Across the country wide
An angry country rioted
When Ginger Goodwin died
Dan Campbell was not arrested
Dan Campbell wasn't tried
From Vancouver on to Winnipeg
They rioted when he died

Chorus:
When he died, when he died, when he died!

Dan Campbell Killed Ginger Goodwin
In the mountains over Cumberland

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Canadian live band folk rock
• Gibsons
• Sunshine Coast
• Grant Olsen
• Ginger Goodwin
• Cumberland

[ZOE8406]

Ginger Goodwin was my great great grandfather, it makes me proud that people honour his memory, good luck TheCopperStills x

[TheCopperStills]

@ZOE8406 Wow that's cool!

[ZOE8406]

@brykasema we didn't know the full history of Ginger until a writer from canada came to visit my Great Nan to show her and give her a book he wrote, he also brought loads of pictures and my uncle went to stay with him and visit Gingers grave side, i woud too like to visit as its exciting to think that something exciting has happened in your family tree, i will ask her the writers name and were my great nan came exactly in the family tree, an ill get back to you : )

[ZOE8406]

@shameoncanada thats so sweet, how old is your son?

[brykasema]

I am the Great Great Great Grandson of Walter Goodwin Ginger Goodwin's father.

[brykasema]

Albert (Ginger) Goodwin never had any kids

[shameoncanada]

@ZOE8406

My son is named after your great grandfather.