Socalled (http://www.socalledmusic.com/) / Springhill Mine Disaster / album: Sleepover / 2011
(originally starting with Dm, for that version transpose 5 whole steps up)
In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia
Down in the dark of the Cumberland Mine
There s blood on the coal and the miners lie
In the roads that never saw sun nor sky
Roads that never saw sun nor sky
In the town of Springhill, you don t sleep easy
Often the earth will tremble and roar
When the earth is restless, miners die
Bone and blood is the price of coal.
Bone and blood is the price of coal.
In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia
Late in the year of fifty eight
The day still comes and the sun still shines
But it s dark as the grave in the Cumberland mine.
Dark as the grave in the Cumberland mine.
Down at the coal face, miners working
Rattle of the belt and the cutterâs blade
Rumble of the rock and the walls closed round
(The) living and the dead men two miles down
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 feet high and a hundred long
Three days passed and the lamps gave out and
Kaela Brushton got up and said
Thereâs no more water, light or bread
So we ll live on songs and hope instead.
live on songs and hope instead
Listen for the shouts of the barefaced miners
Listen thru the rubble for a rescue team
Six hundred tons of coal and slag
Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam.
Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam.
Eight long days 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
Two miles of earth for a marking stone
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(the Socalled version is actually called Mine Disaster, unlike the U2 version)
