The Blantyre Explosion
The Blantyre Explosion

The Blantyre Explosion easy guitar chords by Strawbs

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    • Intro 1

    Verse 1
    Strawbs - The Blantyre 

    Explosion 

    Verse 2
    By 
    Clyde's 
    bonny 
    banks 

    As 
    I 
    sadly 
    did 
    wander 

    Among 
    the 
    coal 
    slag 
    heaps 

    As 
    evening 
    drew 
    nigh, 

    I 
    spied 
    a 
    fair 
    maiden 

    A- 
    weeping 
    an
    d 
    wailing 

    Weeping 
    an
    d 
    wailing 

    With 
    many 
    a 
    sigh. 

    Verse 3

    I 
    stepped 
    up 
    beside 
    her 

    And 
    thus 
    I 
    addressed 
    her: 

    "Pray tell 
    me fair 
    maid 

    Of 
    your 
    trouble 
    and 
    pain." 

    Sobbing 
    and 
    sighing, 

    She 
    sadly 
    did 
    answer: 

    "Johnny 
    Murphy, 
    kind 
    sir, 

    Was 
    my 
    true 
    lover's 
    name." 

    Verse 4

    Twenty- 
    one 
    years 
    of 
    age, 

    Full 
    of 
    youth 
    and 
    good 
    looking, 

    To 
    work 
    down 
    the 
    mines 

    To 
    High Blantyre 
    he 
    came. 

    The 
    wedding 
    was 
    fixed 

    All 
    the 
    guests 
    were 
    in
    vited 

    That calm 
    sum
    mers 
    evening 

    Young 
    Johnny 
    was 
    slain. 

    Verse 5
    The 
    explosion 
    was 
    heard, 

    All 
    the 
    women 
    and 
    chil
    dren 

    With 
    pale 
    anxious 
    faces 

    They 
    haste 
    to 
    the 
    mine. 

    When 
    the news 
    was 
    made 
    known, 

    The 
    hills 
    rang 
    with 
    their 
    moaning, 

    Three- 
    hundred- 
    an
    d- ten 

    Young 
    miners 
    were 
    killed 

    Interlude 1

    Verse 6
    Now 
    husbands 
    and 
    wives 

    And 
    sweethearts 
    and 
    brothers, 

    That 
    Blantyre 
    explosion 

    They'll 
    never 
    for
    get; 

    And 
    all 
    you 
    young 
    miners 

    That 
    hear 
    my 
    sad 
    story, 

    Shed 
    a tear 
    for the 
    victims 

    Who are 
    laid 
    to 
    their 
    rest. 

    Outro 1

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