Ballad of Spring Hill (Spring Hill Disaster)

In the town of Spring Hill, Nova Scotia
Down in the dark of the Cumberland Mine
There’s blood on the coal and miners lie
In the roads that never saw sun or sky
Roads that never saw sun or sky
In the town of Spring Hill you don’t sleep easy
Often the earth will tremble and roar
When the earth gets restless miners die
Bone and blood are the price of coal
Bone and blood are the price of coal
Down at the coal face miners workin'
Rattle of the belt and the cutter’s blade
Crumble of rock and the walls close around
Living and the dead men two miles down
Living and the dead men two miles down
Twelve men lay two miles from the pitshaft
Twelve men lay in the dark and sang
Long hard days in a miner’s tomb
It was three feet high and a hundred long
Three feet high, a hundred long