Springhill Mine Disaster Lyrics - Dubliners

In the town of Spring Hill, Nova Scotia 

Down in the heart of the Cumberland Mine 

There's blood on the coal and miners lie 

In the roads that never saw sun or sky 

Roads that never saw sun or sky 

Down at the coal face the miner's working 

Rattle of the belt and the cutter's blade 

Crumble of rock and the walls close round 

Living and the dead men, two miles down 

Living and the dead men, two miles down 

Twelve men lay two miles from the pitshaft 

Listen for the drilling of a rescue team 

Six hundred feet of coal and slag 

Hope imprisoned in a three-foot seam 

Hope imprisoned in a three-foot seam 

Eight days passed and some were rescued 

Leaving the dead to lie alone 

All their lives they dug their graves 

Two miles of earth for a marking stone 

Two miles of earth for a marking stone