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
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Roads that never saw sun nor sky


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In the town of Springhill, you don't sleep easy
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Often the earth will tremble and roar
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When the earth is restless, miners die
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Bone and blood is the price of coal.
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Bone and blood is the price of coal.


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In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia
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Late in the year of fifty eight
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The day still comes and the sun still shines
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But it's dark as the grave in the Cumberland mine.
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Dark as the grave in the Cumberland mine.


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Down at the coal face, miners working
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Rattle of the belt and the cutter’s blade
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Rumble of the rock and the walls closed round
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(The) living and the dead men two miles down
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living and the dead men two miles down


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Twelve men lay two miles from the pitshaft
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Twelve men lay in the dark and sang
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Long hot days in the miners tomb
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(It) was three feet high and a hundred long
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three feet high and a hundred long


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Three days passed and the lamps gave out and
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Kaela Brushton got up and said
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There’s no more water, light or bread
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So we'll live on songs and hope instead.
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live on songs and hope instead


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Listen for the shouts of the barefaced miners
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Listen thru the rubble for a rescue team
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Six hundred tons of coal and slag
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Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam.
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Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam.


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Eight long days and some were rescued
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Leaving the dead to lie alone
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Thru all their lives they dug their grave
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Two miles of earth for a marking stone
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Two miles of earth for a marking stone


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(the Socalled version is actually called 'Mine' Disaster, unlike the U2 version)