Blantyre Explosion-Christy Moore

[ti:Blantyre Explosion] [ar:Christy Moore] [al:Ordinary Man] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Blantyre Explosion - Christy Moore [00:40.17]By Clyde's bonny banks as I slowly did wander [00:51.28]Among the pit heaps as the evening grew nigh [01:00.77] [01:02.57]I spied a young woman all dressed in black mourning [01:11.75] [01:14.24]Weeping and wailing with many a sigh [01:24.29] [01:25.10]I stepped up beside her and gently addressed her [01:36.02]Would it help you to talk about the cause of your pain [01:44.89] [01:47.75]Weeping and wailing at last she did answer [01:56.25] [01:58.43]Johnny Murphy kind sir is my true lover's name [02:07.29] [02:09.60]Twenty one years of age full of youth and good looking [02:18.02] [02:21.20]To work down the mine of High Blantyre he came [02:32.44]Our wedding was fixed all the guests were invited [02:40.23] [02:43.54]That calm summers' evening my Johnny was slain [02:54.59]The explosion was heard by the women and children [03:03.50] [03:06.24]With pale anxious faces they ran to the mine [03:14.81] [03:17.12]When the news was made known all the hills rang with mourning [03:25.73] [03:28.42]Thee hundred and ten Scottish miners were slain [03:36.83] [03:40.22]Mothers and daughters and sweethearts and lovers [03:49.08]The Blantyre explosion you'll never forget [03:59.63] [04:02.43]All you good people who hear my sad story [04:11.30] [04:13.54]Remember the miners who lie at their rest