Key: C minor
Verse 1
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In
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the
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town of Spring Hill,
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Lower Scotia down,
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In the dark of the Cumberland mine,
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And there's blood on the coal
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I'm a miner 's wife
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And roads that nev er saw sun nor sky
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Road s that never saw sun nor sky
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In the time of spring here
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You don't sleep easy
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tumble and roll
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When the earth is restless,
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night air is shy
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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 Spring Hill,
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late in the year of 58
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Well, the day still comes
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and the sun still shines
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But it's dark as the grave
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in the Cumberland Mines
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Oh, dark as the grave in the
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Cumberland Mines
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Down at the port face the
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miners working
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Rattle of the belt and the cutter's
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blade
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The living and the dead,
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men two miles down
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The living and the dead,
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men two miles down
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Three days passed and the lamps gave out
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Our foreman rose on his elbow and said
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We've no water or light or bread
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So we're living on songs and
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hope instead
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8 days passed,
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some were rescued,
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B
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leaving the dead to die alone
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Through all their lives
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they dug their graves
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Two miles of earth for a
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marking stone
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Two miles of earth for a marking stone
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oh, oh, oh, oh...
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