{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":76268,"song":"The Springhill Disaster","artist":"Ewan MacColl","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11546779-the-springhill-disaster-chords-by-ewan-maccoll/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/76268?type=chord","rating":4.47281,"votes":3,"content":"#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#\r\n#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #\r\n#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #\r\n#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##\r\n#019\r\n{title:The Springhill Disaster}\r\n{st:Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger}\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]                                    \r\nIn the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]                               \r\nDown in the dark of the Cumberland mine,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch]                          \r\nThere's blood on the coal and the miners lie[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]                                \r\nIn the roads that never saw sun nor sky,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]E7[/ch]                                       \r\nRoads that never saw sun nor sky.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]  \r\nIn the town of Springhill you don't sleep easy,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]   \r\nOften the Earth will tremble and roll;[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nWhen the Earth is restless, miners die;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]        \r\nBone and blood is the price of coal,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]E7[/ch]  \r\nBone and blood is the price of coal.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]    \r\nIn the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]    \r\nLate in the year of '58,[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nDay still comes and the Sun still shines,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut it's dark as the grave in the Cumberland mine,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]E7[/ch]  \r\nDark as the grave in the Cumberland mine.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]  \r\nDown at the coal-face, miners working,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]  \r\nRattle of the belt and the cutter's blade;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nRumble of rock, and the walls close 'round:[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe living and the dead men two miles down,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]E7[/ch]  \r\nLiving and the dead men two miles down.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]  \r\nTwelve men lay two miles from the pit-shaft;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]  \r\nTwelve men lay in the dark and sang.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nLong hot days in the miners tomb:[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt was three feet high and a hundred long,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]E7[/ch] \r\nThree feet high and a hundred long.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]  \r\nThree days passed and the lamps gave out,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]  \r\nAnd Kaehler Brushen, he up and said,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch] \r\n\"There's no more water, nor light, nor bread,[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo we'll live on songs and hope instead,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]E7[/ch] \r\nLive on songs and hope instead.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]  \r\nListen for the shouts of the bare-faced miners,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]  \r\nListen through the rubble for a rescue team;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nSix hundred feet of coal and slag[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHope imprisoned in a three foot seam,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]E7[/ch] \r\nHope imprisoned in a three foot seam.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 8]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]  \r\nEight days passed and some were rescued,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]  \r\nLeaving the dead to lie alone[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch] \r\nThrough all their lives they dug a grave:[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTwo miles of earth for a marking stone,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]E7[/ch] \r\nTwo miles of earth for a marking stone.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n# Submitted to the ftp.nevada.edu:/pub/guitar archives\r\n# by Steve Putz \r\n# 7 September 1992","plain_text":"#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#\n#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #\n#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #\n#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##\n#019\n{title:The Springhill Disaster}\n{st:Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger}\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 7]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 8]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n# Submitted to the ftp.nevada.edu:/pub/guitar archives\n# by Steve Putz \n# 7 September 1992","chords":["Am","G","C","Em","E7"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"E7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,0,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,0,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}