Key: Gb major
Verse 1
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In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia
Down in the dark of
the Cumberland mine
There's blood on the coal
and the miners lie
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In roads that never saw sun nor sky,
roads that never saw sun nor sky.
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often the earth will tremble and roll.
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miners die
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Bone and blood is the price of gold
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Bone and blood is the price of gold.
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In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia,
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Laid in the year of fifty -eight,
The day still comes
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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
Down at the coal face, miners working,
Rattle of the bells and the cotter's play,
Then a rumble, a rumble,
and the walls close away,
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Living and the dead, men two miles down,
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Living and the dead,
men two miles down.
Twelve men lay two miles
from the Pitchaff
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the dark and sang
It was three foot high by a hundred long,
Three foot high by a hundred long.
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Three days passed
and the landscape's verdant,
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Cane and brush die off and sad,
There's no more water,
and hope instead,
Live on stones and hope instead.
Listen for the sheds
of the bare -faced miners,
Listen through the rubble
for the rescue teams,
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Six hundred feet of corn and slag
a three -foot seam
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Hope imprisoned in a three
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-foot seam
Eight days passed out
and some were rescued
Leaving the dead to lie alone
Through all their lives they dug a grave
Two miles of earth for a marking stone
Two miles of earth for a marking stone
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