The Springhill Mine Desaster - Lyrics - Paddy Goes To Holyhead

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 in the roads that never saw sun nor sky, roads that never saw sun nor sky In the town of Springhill you don′t sleep easy Often the earth will tremble and roll When the earth is restless miners die - Bone and blood is the price of coal, bone and blood is the price of coal. In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia, late in the year of fifty-eight Day still comes and the sun still shines, but it′s dark as the grave in the Cumberland mine, dark as the grave in the Cumberland mine Down at the coal face miners working Rattle of the belt and the cutter′s blade Rumble of the rock and the walls closed round The living and the dead men two miles down, living and the dead men two miles down Twelve men lay two miles from the pitshaft Twelve men lay in the dark and sang Long hot days in the miners tomb It was three feet high and a hundred long, three feet high and a hundred long Three days past and the lamps gave out Our foreman rose on his elbow and said We′re out of light and water and bread, so we′ll live on songs and we hope instead, live on songs and we hope instead