[00:21.171]In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia[00:26.194]Down in the dark of the Cumberland Mine[00:31.020]there's blood on the coal and the miners lie[00:35.731]In the roads that never saw sun nor sky (2x)[00:46.010][00:48.097]In the town of Springhill, you don't sleep easy[00:53.046]Often the earth will tremble and roll[00:57.480]When the earth is restless, miners die[01:02.358]Bone and blood is the price of coal[01:12.044][01:14.816]In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia[01:19.386]Late in the year of fifty-eight[01:23.901]Day still comes and the sun still shines[01:28.403]But it's dark as the grave in the Cumberland mine[01:37.910][01:41.455]Down at the coal face, miners working[01:45.747]Rattle of the belt and the cutter's blade[01:50.345]Rumble of the rock and the walls closed round[01:54.934]The living and the dead men two miles down[02:04.222][02:07.572]Twelve men lay two miles from the pitshaft[02:12.132]Twelve men lay in the dark and sang[02:16.586]Long hot days in the miners tomb[02:20.886]It was three feet high and a hundred long[02:31.316][02:33.935]Three days past and the lamps gave out[02:38.085]Caleb Rushton he up and said,[02:42.349]There's no more water nor light nor bread[02:46.580]So we'll live on song and hope instead[02:56.081][02:59.349]Listen for the shouts of the barefaced miners[03:03.754]Listen thru the rubble for a rescue team[03:07.733]Six hundred feet of coal and slag[03:12.562]Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam[03:21.499][03:22.976]Eight days passes and some were rescued[03:27.094]Leaving the dead to lie alone[03:31.397]Thru all their lives they dug their grave[03:35.708]Two miles of earth for a marking stone[03:44.824]