Springhill Mining Disaster-Luke Kelly

[ti:Springhill Mining Disaster] [ar:Luke Kelly] [al:The Best of Luke Kelly] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Springhill Mining Disaster - Luke Kelly [00:12.29]In the town of springhill Nova Scotia [00:19.03]Down in the dark of the Cumberland mine [00:25.75] [00:26.67]There's blood on the coal [00:29.49]And the miners lie [00:34.14]In roads that never saw sun or sky [00:40.28]Roads that never saw sun or sky [00:47.28] [00:50.40]In the town of springhill you don't sleep easy [00:56.62]Often the earth will tremble and roll [01:02.65] [01:03.24]When the earth is restless miners die [01:11.03]Bone and blood is the price of coal [01:16.67]Bone and blood is the price of coal [01:22.59] [01:26.27]In the town of springhill Nova Scotia [01:32.43]Late in the year of fifty eight [01:38.69] [01:39.57]The day still comes and the sun still shines [01:45.66] [01:46.47]But it's dark as the grave in the Cumberland mine [01:52.29]Dark as the grave in the Cumberland mine [01:58.90] [02:02.66]Three days past when the lamps gave out [02:07.26] [02:08.06]And Kaela Brushton got up and said [02:14.74] [02:15.28]We've no more water or light or bread [02:21.98]So we'll live on songs and hope instead [02:28.57]Live on songs and hope instead [02:34.44] [02:39.30]Listen for the shouts of the black face miners [02:44.85]Listen through the rubble for the rescue teams [02:50.72] [02:51.78]Three hundred tonnes of coal and slag [02:59.19]Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam [03:04.86]Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam [03:10.64] [03:15.18]Twelve days past and some were rescued [03:20.82]Leaving the dead to lie alone [03:26.77] [03:27.90]Through all their live they dug a grave [03:34.53] [03:35.27]Two miles of earth is a marking stone [03:40.71]Two miles of earth is a marking stone