Blantyre Explosion

	  		
 

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 By Clyde's bonny banks,  As I slowly did wander 
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 Among the pit heaps,  As the evening grew nigh 
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 I spied a young woman,  All dressed in black mourning 
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 Weeping and wailing,   With many a sigh 

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 I stepped up beside her,  And gently addressed her 
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 Would it help you to talk,  About the cause of your pain 
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 Weeping and wailing,  At last she did answer 
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 Johnny Murphy, Kind sir,   Is my true lovers name 

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 Twenty-one years of age,  Full of youth and good lookin' 
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 To work down the mine,  Of High Blantyre he came 
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 Our wedding was fixed,  All the guests were invited 
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 That calm summers' evening,  My Johnny was slain 

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 The explosion was heard,  By the women and children 
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 With pale anxious faces,  They ran to the mine 
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 When the news was made known,  All the hills rang with mourning 
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 Three hundred and ten,  Scottish miners were slain 

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 Mothers and daughters,  And sweethearts and lovers 
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 The Blantyre explosion,  Will never forget 
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 All you good people,  That hear my sad story 
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 Remember the miners,  Who lie at their rest 

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