The Browder Explosion chords by
Merle Travis
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Verse 1
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The first day I ever spent in school
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was at Browder, Kentucky.
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My memory goes no further back
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than when the Travis family lived
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at the old Little Page place
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at the top of Browder Hill.
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This little coal mining town
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was between Owensboro
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an d Russellville
and the southwestern part of the state.
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My oldest brother Taylor worked
in the mines there,
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but thank God a good many years
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after the horrible explosion,
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the one that they say come like
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a bolt of lightning
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and snuffed out the lives of 34 workers
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and injured an awful lot more.
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When I decided to write a about this
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awful explosion,
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I called on an old friend of mine, Paul Camplin,
at Greenville, Kentucky, for help.
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So I want to thank Paul
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for the old newspaper clippings
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that was printed at the
very time of the disaster,
and my deepest sympathy goes
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to the people who lost loved ones
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in the terrible Browder explosion.
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On a cold winter morning
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on February 1st in 1910,
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the Wickliffe Coal Company
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in Browder, Kentucky
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was waiting to welcome its men.
A hundred or more of the jolly coal miners
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met there at the shaft of the mine.
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But little they knew that
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before the day ended,
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a fiery death many would find.
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So sad was that day down in Muhlen
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berg County in 1910,
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when men lost their lives
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in the Browder explosion,
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the brave lives of 34 men.
They joked and they laughed
on that cold winter morning,
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not knowing that just before noon,
a mighty disaster
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would come quick as lightning
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and send 34 to their doom.
Young foreman Pete Kelly,
he said to his family,
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I'm quitting when noon rolls around.
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But his brave life was ended
in the Browder explosion
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And he was the last to be found
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So sad was that day
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down in Muhlenberg County in 1910
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When men lost their lives
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in the Browder explosion
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The brave lives of thirty -four men
Every coal miner in Muhlenberg County
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Wiped tears from their eyes as they said
We'll go join the men
at the Browder explosion
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And help them recover their dead
Oh pity the sorrow of poor Mr. Wickliffe
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The owner of that fatal mine
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Who may have felt guilty,
but God knows he wasn't
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Disaster may strike any time
There was waitin' and weepin'
by women and children
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That mornin' in nineteen and ten
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Who prayed in the bleak,
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freezing midwinter weather
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And waited for word of their men
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When people discuss all
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the dangers of mining,
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I've seen brave men cry in ashame,
Remembering that horrible
Browder explosion,
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recalling the lives that it claimed.
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So sad was that day down in
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Muhlenberg County in 1910,
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When men lost their lives
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in the broader explosion,
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The brave lives of thirty -four men.

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