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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 the roads that never saw sun nor sky

Roads that never saw sun nor 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 and the lamps gave out

And Kaela Brushton got up and and said

We have no more water, or light, or bread

So we'll live on song and hope instead.

live on song and hope instead

Listen for the shouts of the black faced miners

Listen thru the rubble for a rescue team

Three hundred ton of coal and slag

Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam.

Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam.

Twelve days passed and some were rescued

Leaving the dead to lie alone

Thru all their days they dug their grave

Two miles of earth for a marking stone