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Ballad of Spring Hill (Spring Hill Disaster) -- Peggy Seeger

Guest poem sent in by Dale Rosenberg
(Poem #1386) Ballad of Spring Hill (Spring Hill Disaster)
 In the town of Spring Hill, Nova Scotia,
 Down in the heart 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.

 Down at the coal face the miner's workin'
 Rattle of the belt and the cutter's blade
 Crumble of rock and the walls close round
 Living and the dead men two miles down
 Living and the dead men two miles down

 Twelve men lay two miles from the pitshaft
 Listen for the drillin' of a rescue team
 Six hundred feet of coal and slag
 Hope imprisoned in a three-foot seam
 Hope imprisoned in a three-foot seam

 Eight days passed and some were rescued
 Leaving the dead to lie alone
 All their lives they dug their graves
 Two miles of earth for a markin' stone
 Two miles of earth for a markin' stone

 In the town of Spring Hill you don't sleep easy
 Often the Earth will tremble and groan
 When the Earth is restless, miners die
 Bone and blood is the price of coal
 Bone and blood is the price of coal
-- Peggy Seeger
Yesterday's poem about a mining disaster made me think of Peggy Seeger's
"Ballad of Spring Hill."  Based on a real mining accident, where a number of
the trapped miners survived until rescued 8 days later, it has a haunting
melody and even more haunting lyrics.  I heard it as a child, listening to
Peter, Paul and Mary's recording.  I doubt I've heard or read it for 30 years,
but the line "all their lives they dug their graves" still gives me shivers.

Dale Rosenberg

Biography:
  [broken link] http://www.pegseeger.com/html/peggylongbio.html

[p.s. thanks to everyone who identified Stephen Mitchell as the translator of
the Rilke poem. - martin]

17 comments: ( or Leave a comment )

Bluric said...

I first heard this wonderful communication, with Ewan & Peggy, on a record
called Greatest Folksingers of the Sixties...I still have the record but would
love to purchase a CD of this same recording.........Vanguard offers the
original album SANS "The Ballad of Springhill!."

Is it possible to recommend a reliable source ??

Anonymous said...

I would love to suck all of the miner's big hairy cocks. n i want to chew their babies so i can spit it in my hand and wipe it all on my pussy

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Anonymous said...

Did i mention that i alredy had sex with all of those miners b4 they died? they fucked me so hard it caused the mine to explode and make rocks falls

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alicetaylor said...

Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl composed The Ballad of Springhill, which they originally performed as an a cappella duet in 1959.

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