The Ballad Of Springhill chords by
Ewan Maccoll
Peggy Seeger

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Key: C minor•

Verse 1

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In the town of

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Spring Hill,

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Nova Scotia,

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Down in the dark of the Cumberland mine,

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There's blood and the coal

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and the miners lie

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In the roads that nev er

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saw sun or sky,

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Roads that nev er saw sun nor sky.

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In the town of Spring Hill

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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,

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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.

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In the town of Spring Hill,

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Nova Scotia,

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Late in the year of fifty -eight,

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Day still comes and the

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sun still shines,

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But it's dark as the grave

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in the Cumberland mine.

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Dark as the grave in the

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Cumberland mine.

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Down at the coal face,

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miners work in

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The rattle of the belts and

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the cutter's blade.

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Rumble of rock and the walls close round

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The liv ing and the dead men

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two miles down.

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Flipping and the dead man

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two miles down.

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Twelve men lay two miles

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from the pitch shaft.

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Twelve men lay in the dark and sang.

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Long hop gazed in a minus two.

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It was three feet high and

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a hundred long.

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Three feet high and a hundred

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long.

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Three days passed

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and the lamps gave out

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And Caleb rushed and he up and said

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There's no more wa ter, no light, no bread

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So we'll live on songs and hope instead

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Live on songs and hope instead.

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Listen for the shouts

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of the bare -faced miners.

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Listen through the rubble

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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

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Eight days passed and

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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

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