Tonart: D minor
Verse 1
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In the town of Springhill,
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Nova Scotia,
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B
Down in the dark of the
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Cumberland Mine
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There's blood on the coal
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and the miners lie
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In the roads that never
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saw sun nor sky
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Roads that never saw sun nor sky
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Verse 2
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In the town of Springhill you
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don't sleep easy
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B
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Often the earth will tremble and roll
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When the earth is restless miners die
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Bone and blood is the price of coal
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Bone and blood is the price of coal
Verse 3
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In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia
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B
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Late in the year of fifty- eight
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The day still comes and
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the sun still shines
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But it's dark as the grave in
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the Cumberland mine
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Dark as the grave in the
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Cumberland mine
Verse 4
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Down at the coal face miners working
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B
Rattle of the belts and the
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cutter's blade
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Then a rumble of rock and
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the walls close round
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C#
Living and the dead men
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two miles down
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Living and the dead men
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two miles down
Verse 5
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Twelve men lay two miles
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from the pit shaft
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Twelve men lay in the dark and sang
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Long hot days in the miners' tomb
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It was three foot high and
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a hundred long
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Three foot high a hun dred long
Verse 6
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Three days passed and
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the lamps gave out
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And Caleb Rushton got up and said
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There's no more water light or bread
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So we'll live on song
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s and hope instead
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Live on songs and hope instead
Verse 7
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F#
Listen for the shouts of the
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bare- face miners,
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B
Listen through the rubble
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for the rescue team
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Six hundred feet of coal and slag
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Hope imprisoned in a three- foot seam
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Hope imprisoned in a three- foot seam
Verse 8
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Eight long days and some
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B
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Leaving the dead to lie alone
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Through all their lives they
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dug their grave
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Two miles of earth for a marking stone
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Two miles of earth for a marking stone
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