Springhill Mine Disaster-Martin Carthy/Dave Swarbrick

[ti:Springhill Mine Disaster] [ar:Martin Carthy] [al:Martin Carthy] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Springhill Mine Disaster - Martin Carthy/Dave Swarbrick [00:14.62]In the town of Springhill Nova Scotia [00:19.41] [00:20.55]Deep in the heart of [00:22.12]The Cumberland Mine [00:23.56] [00:24.45]There's blood on the coal [00:26.39]And the miners lie [00:30.95] [00:32.42]In roads that never saw [00:34.50]Sun nor sky [00:36.39] [00:37.62]Roads that never saw sun nor sky [00:42.41] [00:45.35]In the town of Springhill [00:47.19]You don't sleep easy [00:49.06] [00:50.19]Often the earth would [00:51.72]Tremble and roll [00:53.87]When the earth is restless miners die [00:59.64] [01:00.18]Bone and blood is the price of coal [01:03.42] [01:04.92]Bone and blood is the price of coal [01:09.40] [01:12.62]In the town of Springhill Nova Scotia [01:16.98] [01:17.62]Late in the year of 58 [01:20.36] [01:21.28]The day still comes [01:23.46]And the sun still shines [01:27.87] [01:29.20]But it's dark as the grave [01:31.23]In the Cumberland Mine [01:33.46] [01:34.48]Dark as the grave [01:35.92]In the Cumberland Mine [01:39.46] [01:42.22]Down at the coal face [01:43.76] [01:44.29]Miners working [01:45.99] [01:46.52]Rattle of the belts [01:48.02]And the cutter blades [01:50.41]Then a rumble of rock [01:52.24]And the walls close round [01:56.64]Living and the dead men [01:58.04] [01:58.65]Two miles down [02:00.20] [02:01.36]Living and the dead men [02:03.21]Two miles down [02:06.11] [02:09.28]Twelve men lay two miles [02:11.67]From the pitshaft [02:13.01] [02:14.02]Twelve men lay [02:14.89]In the dark and sang [02:17.58] [02:18.92]Long hot days in the miner's tomb [02:23.97] [02:24.48]It was three foot wide [02:26.33]By a hundred long [02:28.70] [02:29.30]Three foot wide [02:30.83]By a hundred long [02:34.58] [02:37.27]Three days passed [02:38.89]And the lights gave out [02:40.57] [02:41.59]When the leading man [02:43.09]Got up and said [02:44.77] [02:45.66]There's no more water [02:47.01] [02:47.54]Nor light nor bread [02:51.59]So we'll live on songs [02:53.10]Of hope instead [02:55.08] [02:56.38]Live on songs of hope instead [03:00.70] [03:01.56]Listen for the shouts [03:03.22]Of the bareface miners [03:05.11] [03:05.67]Listen through the rubble [03:07.08]For the rescue team [03:09.20] [03:09.77]Six hundred feet of coal and slag [03:15.19] [03:15.88]Hope imprisoned in a three-foot seam [03:19.80] [03:20.39]Hope imprisoned in a three-foot seam [03:24.92] [03:28.33]Eight days passed [03:29.99]And some were rescued [03:31.84] [03:32.95]Leaving the rest to die alone [03:39.18] [03:39.95]Through all their lives [03:42.19]They dug a grave [03:46.76] [03:48.27]Two miles of earth [03:49.86]For a marking stone [03:52.25] [03:53.20]Two miles of earth [03:54.15] [03:54.67]For a marking stone