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Dm C Dm C In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia Dm G Dm Down in the dark of The Cumberland Mine Dm7 G C Am There's blood on the coal and the miners lie Dm C Dm C In the roads that never saw sun nor sky Dm C Dm A Roads that never saw sun nor sky Dm C Dm C In the town of Springhill, you don't sleep easy Dm G Dm Often the earth will tremble and roll Dm G C A7 When the earth is restless, miners die Dm C Dm C Bone and blood is the price of coal Dm C Dm C In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia, Dm G Dm Late in the year of fifty-eight Dm G C A7 Day still comes and the sun still shines Dm C Dm C But it's dark as the grave in the Cumberland Mine Dm C Dm C But it's dark as the grave in the Cumberland Mine Dm C Dm C Down at the coal face, miners working Dm G Dm Rattle of the belt, and the cutter's blade Dm G C A7 Rumble of rock and the walls close round Dm C Dm C The living and the dead men two miles down Dm C Dm C Twelve men lay two miles from the pitshaft Dm G Dm Twelve men lay in the dark and sang Dm C G A7 Long hot days in a miner's tomb Dm C Dm C It was three feet high and a hundred long Dm C Dm C It was three feet high and a hundred long Dm C Dm C Three days passed and the lamps gave out Dm G Dm And Caleb Rushton, he up and said Dm C A7 'There's no more water nor light nor bread Dm C Dm C So we'll live on hope and songs instead' Dm C Dm C Listen for the shouts of the bareface miners Dm G Dm Listen through the rubble for a rescue team Dm C A7 Six hundred feet of coal and a slag Dm C Dm C Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam Dm C Dm C Eight days passed and some were rescued Dm G Dm Leaving the dead to die alone Dm C A7 Through all their lives they dug a grave Dm C Dm C Two miles of earth for a marking stone
Written by Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger
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