Springhill Mining Disaster

Springhill Mining Disaster - Luke Kelly

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 roads that never saw sun or sky

Roads that never saw sun or 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

The 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

Three days past when the lamps gave out

And Kaela Brushton got up and said

We've no more water or light or bread

So we'll live on songs and hope instead

Live on songs and hope instead

Listen for the shouts of the black face miners

Listen through the rubble for the rescue teams

Three hundred tonnes of coal and slag

Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam

Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam

Twelve days past and some were rescued

Leaving the dead to lie alone

Through all their live they dug a grave

Two miles of earth is a marking stone

Two miles of earth is a marking stone