Springhill Mining Disaster

Bono (Spoken): Like to... I'd like to try a song that I think we've only played once before, so. This is a city that a... a lot of Irish people came to this city, right? So this time... this Irish... the Irish people came as rock and roll band, okay? So... but this is a folk song. It's like... the Irish kinda' hold America in a very special place because, for over a hundred years or more, Irish have come over here to find work and find a future. And they brought with them songs, old Irish folk songs that became old American folk songs. And, I hope maybe we'd leave behind some songs one day. This is a song written by Peggy Seeger. It's a song... I wished I'd heard this song on the radio during the miners' strike in England a few years ago. This is called Springhill Mining Disaster..