The Ballad Of Springhill chords by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger
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 never
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saw sun or sky,
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Roads that never 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
The Ballad Of Springhill
Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger
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