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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.
[Verse 2]
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In the town of Springhill you don't sleep easy,
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Often the Earth will tremble and roll;
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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.
[Verse 3]
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In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia,
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Late in the year of '58,
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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.
[Verse 4]
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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 rock, and the walls close '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.
[Verse 5]
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Twelve men lay two miles from the pit-shaft;
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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.
[Verse 6]
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Three days passed and the lamps gave out,
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And Kaehler Brushen, he up and said,
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"There's no more water, nor light, nor bread,
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So we'll live on songs and hope instead,
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Live on songs and hope instead."
[Verse 7]
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Listen for the shouts of the bare-faced miners,
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Listen through the rubble for a rescue team;
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Six hundred feet 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.
[Verse 8]
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Eight days passed and some were rescued,
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Leaving the dead to lie alone
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Through all their lives they dug a 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.
# Submitted to the ftp.nevada.edu:/pub/guitar archives
# by Steve Putz
# 7 September 1992
