Springhill Mine Disaster Lyrics - Singles - Seeger Peggy

SPRINGHILL MINE DISASTER 

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In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia 

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Down in the dark of the Cumberland Mine 

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there's blood on the coal and the miners lie 

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In the roads that never saw sun nor sky (2x) 

In the town of Springhill, you don't sleep easy 

Often the earth will tremble and roll 

When the earth is restless, miners die 

Bone and blood is the price of coal 

In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia 

Late in the year of fifty-eight 

Day still comes and the sun still shines 

But it's dark as the grave in the Cumberland mine 

Down at the coal face, miners working 

Rattle of the belt and the cutter's blade 

Rumble of the rock and the walls closed round 

The living and the dead men two miles down 

Twelve men lay two miles from the pitshaft 

Twelve men lay in the dark and sang 

Long hot days in the miners tomb 

It was three feet high and a hundred long 

Three days past and the lamps gave out 

Our foreman rose on his elbow and said 

We're out of light and water and bread 

So we'll live on song and hope instead 

Listen for the shouts of the barefaced miners 

Listen thru the rubble for a rescue team 

Six hundred feet of coal and slag 

Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam 

Eight days passes and some were rescued 

Leaving the dead to lie alone 

Thru all their lives they dug their grave 

Two miles of earth for a marking stone 

In the town of Springhill, you don't sleep easy 

Often the earth will tremble and roll 

When the earth is restless, miners die 

Bone and blood is the price of coal 

Copyright Sing Out 

by Peggy Seeger, recorded by Ewan MacColl 

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