Ballad of Spring Hill - Peter, Paul and Mary

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