Ballad Of Springhill

	  		

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In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia 
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Down in the dark of The Cumberland Mine 
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There's blood on the coal and the miners lie 
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In the roads that never saw sun nor sky 
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Roads that never saw sun nor sky 
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In the town of Springhill, you don't sleep easy 
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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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In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia, 
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Late in the year of fifty-eight 
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Day still comes and the sun still shines 
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But it's dark as the grave in the Cumberland Mine 
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But it's dark as the grave in the Cumberland Mine 
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Down at the coal face, miners working 
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Rattle of the belt, and the cutter's blade 
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Rumble of rock and the walls close round 
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The living and the dead men two miles down 
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Twelve men lay two miles from the pitshaft 
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Twelve men lay in the dark and sang 
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Long hot days in a miner's tomb 
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It was three feet high and a hundred long 
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It was three feet high and a hundred long 
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Three days passed and the lamps gave out 
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And Caleb Rushton, he up and said 
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"There's no more water nor light nor bread 
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So we'll live on hope and songs instead" 
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Listen for the shouts of the bareface miners 
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Listen through the rubble for a rescue team 
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Six hundred feet of coal and a slag 
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Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam 
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Eight days passed and some were rescued 
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Leaving the dead to die alone 
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Through all their lives they dug a grave 
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Two miles of earth for a marking stone