SPRINGHILL MINE DISASTER   Dm C Dm C  In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia  Dm G Dm  Down in the dark of the Cumberland Mine   G C Am  there's blood on the coal and the miners lie   Dm C Dm C A  In the roads that never saw sun nor sky (2x)  In the town of Springhill, you don't sleep easy  Often the earth will tremble and roll  When the earth is restless, miners die  Bone and blood is the price of coal  In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia  Late in the year of fifty-eight  Day still comes and the sun still shines  But it's dark as the grave in the Cumberland mine  Down at the coal face, miners working  Rattle of the belt and the cutter's blade  Rumble of the rock and the walls closed round  The 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 days past and the lamps gave out  Our foreman rose on his elbow and said  We're out of light and water and bread  So we'll live on song and hope instead  Listen for the shouts of the barefaced miners  Listen thru the rubble for a rescue team  Six hundred feet of coal and slag  Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam  Eight days passes 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  In the town of Springhill, you don't sleep easy  Often the earth will tremble and roll  When the earth is restless, miners die  Bone and blood is the price of coal  Copyright Sing Out  by Peggy Seeger, recorded by Ewan MacColl  filename[ SPRINGHI  play.exe SPRINGHI  SF  ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY===