Key: A minor
Verse 1
G#m
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Eaug
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G#m
In the
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B
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town of Springhill Nova Scotia
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F#
Deep in the heart of the Cumberland
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Mine
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There's blood on the coal and
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the miners lie
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B
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In roads that never saw sun nor sky
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G#m
Roads that never saw sun nor sky
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In the town of
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Springhill
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you don't sleep easy
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Often the earth would tremble and roll
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When the earth is restless miners die
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Bone and blood is the price
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of coal
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G#m
Bone and blood is the price of coal
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In the town of
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B
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Springhill Nova Scotia
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E
Late in the year of 58
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The day still comes and
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the sun still shines
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But it's dark as the grave in the
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C#sus4
Cumberland Mine
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Dark as the grave in the
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G#m
Cumber land Mine
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Down at the coal face
Verse 4
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miners working
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F#
Rattle of the belts and the cutter blades
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F#
Then a rumble of rock
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and the walls close round
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Living and the dead men two miles down
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G#m
Living and the dead men two miles down
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Twelve men lay two
Verse 5
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miles
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from the pitshaft
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Twelve men lay in the dark and sang
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F#
G#m
Long hot days in the miner's tomb
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B
It was three foot wide by a hundred long
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Three foot wide by a hun dred long
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Three days
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passed and
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the lights gave out
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When the leading man got
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up and said
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There's no more water
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nor light nor bread
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So we'll live on songs of hope instead
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C#sus4
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Live on songs of
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hope in stead
Verse 7
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Listen for the shouts of the
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bareface miners
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Listen through the rubble
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for the rescue team
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Six hundred feet of coal and slag
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B
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Hope imprisoned in a three- foot seam
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Hope imprisoned in a
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three- foot seam
Verse 8
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Eight days passed an
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d some were rescued
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Leaving the rest to die alone
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F#
Through all their lives they
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E
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
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stone
Outro 1
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Eaug
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