The Browder Explosion

The Browder Explosion easy guitar chords by Merle Travis

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  • Verse 1
    The 
    first day 
    I ever spent in 
    school 

    was at 
    Browder
    , Kentucky. 

    My 
    memory goes no 
    further back 

    than when 
    the Travis family 
    lived 

    at the old Little 
    Page place 

    at 
    the top 
    of 
    Browder Hill. 

    This 
    little coal 
    mining 
    town 

    was 
    between Owens
    boro 

    an
    d Russellville 

    and the 
    southwestern 
    part of the state. 

    My oldest 
    brother Taylor worked 

    in the 
    mines there, 

    but thank 
    God a good many 
    years 

    after the hor
    rible explosion, 

    the 
    one 
    that they 
    say come 
    like 

    a bolt of 
    lightning 

    and snuffed 
    out the lives 
    of 34 
    workers 

    and 
    injured an 
    awful 
    lot more. 

    When 
    I decided to 
    write 
    a about 
    this 

    awful 
    explo
    sion, 

    I called on an 
    old 
    friend of 
    mine, Paul 
    Camplin, 

    at Greenville, 
    Kentucky, 
    for help. 

    So 
    I want to thank 
    Paul 

    for 
    the old newspaper 
    clippings 

    that was 
    printed at 
    the 

    very time of 
    the disaster, 

    and 
    my deepest 
    sympathy goes 

    to the people 
    who lost 
    loved 
    ones 

    in 
    the 
    ter
    rible 
    Browder 
    explosion. 

    On 
    cold 
    winter 
    morning 

    on 
    February 
    1st 
    in 
    1910, 

    the 
    Wickliffe 
    Coal 
    Com
    pany 

    in 
    Browder, 
    Kentucky 

    was 
    waiting 
    to 
    welcome 
    its 
    men. 

    hundred 
    or 
    more 
    of 
    the jolly 
    coal 
    miners 

    met 
    there 
    at 
    the shaft 
    of 
    the mine. 

    But 
    little 
    they 
    knew 
    that 

    before 
    the 
    day 
    ended, 

    fiery 
    death 
    many 
    would 
    find

    So 
    sad 
    was 
    that day 
    down 
    in 
    Muhlen

    berg 
    County 
    in 
    1910, 

    when 
    men 
    lost 
    their lives 

    in 
    the 
    Browder 
    explosion, 

    the brave 
    lives 
    of 
    34 
    men. 

    They 
    joked 
    and 
    they laughed 

    on 
    that cold 
    winter 
    morning, 

    not 
    knowing 
    that 
    just 
    before 
    noon, 

    mighty 
    disaster 

    would 
    come 
    quick 
    as light
    ning 

    and 
    send 
    34 
    to 
    their 
    doom. 

    Young 
    foreman 
    Pete 
    Kelly, 

    he 
    said 
    to his 
    family, 

    I'm 
    quitting 
    when 
    noon 
    rolls 
    around. 

    But 
    his 
    brave 
    life 
    was 
    ended 

    in 
    the 
    Browder 
    explosion 

    And 
    he 
    was 
    the 
    last 
    to 
    be found 

    So 
    sad 
    was 
    that day 

    down 
    in 
    Muhlenberg 
    County 
    in 
    1910 

    When 
    men 
    lost 
    their 
    lives 

    in 
    the 
    Browder 
    explo
    sion 

    The 
    brave 
    lives 
    of thirty 
    -four 
    men 

    Every 
    coal 
    miner 
    in 
    Muhlenberg 
    County 

    Wiped 
    tears 
    from 
    their eyes 
    as they 
    said 

    We'll 
    go join 
    the men 

    at 
    the 
    Browder 
    explosion 

    And 
    help 
    them 
    recover 
    their 
    dead 

    Oh 
    pity 
    the 
    sorrow 
    of 
    poor 
    Mr. 
    Wickliffe 

    The 
    owner 
    of 
    that fatal 
    mine 

    Who 
    may 
    have 
    felt 
    guilty, 

    but God 
    knows 
    he 
    wasn't 

    Dis
    aster 
    may 
    strike 
    any 
    time 

    There 
    was 
    waitin' 
    and 
    weepin' 

    by women 
    and 
    children 

    That 
    mornin' 
    in nineteen 
    and 
    ten 

    Who 
    prayed 
    in 
    the bleak

    freez
    ing midwinter 
    weather 

    And 
    waited 
    for 
    word 
    of 
    their men 

    When 
    people 
    discuss 
    all 

    the dangers 
    of 
    min
    ing, 

    I've 
    seen 
    brave 
    men 
    cry 
    in ashame, 


    Remembering 
    that 
    horrible 

    Browder 
    explosion, 

    recalling 
    the 
    lives 
    that 
    it claimed. 

    So sad 
    was 
    that day 
    down 
    in 

    Muhlenberg 
    County 
    in 
    1910, 

    When 
    men 
    lost 
    their 
    lives 

    in 
    the 
    broader 
    explosion, 

    The 
    brave 
    lives 
    of 
    thirty 
    -four 
    men. 

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