U2 - Springhill Mining Disaster lyrics

Like toi'd like to try a song that
I think we've only played once before
So this is a city that aa
Lot of Irish people came to this city
Right? So this
Timethis Irishthe Irish people came as
Rock and roll band
Okay? Sobut this is a folk song
It's likethe Irish kinda' hold America
In a very special place because, for over a
Hundred years or more
Irish have come over here to
Find work and find a future and
They brought with them songs
Old Irish folk songs that became
Old American folk songs and
I hope maybe we'd leave behind some
Songs one day this is
A song written by Peggy Seeger
It's a songi wished I'd
Heard this song on the radio during
The miners' strike in England
A few years ago this is
Called Springhill Mining Disaster

In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia
Down in the dark of the Cumberland mine
There's blood on the coal, and the miners lie
In roads that never saw sun or sky roads -

Shut up for a second, will you? Stop
Whistling 'cause I'm not in the Beatles
Okay? It's U2 here

In the town of Springhill
They don't sleep easy
Often the earth will tremble and roll
When the earth is restless miners die
Bone and blood is the price of coal
Bone and blood is the price of coal

Listen to the shouts of the black faced miner
Listen to the call of the rescue team

We have no water, light or bread
So we're living on songs and hope instead
Living on songs and hope instead

In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia
Down in the dark of the Cumberland mine
There's blood on the coal, and the miners lie
In roads that never saw sun or sky
Roads that never saw sun nor sky

In the town of Springhill don't sleep easy
Often the earth will tremble and roll
When the earth is restless miners die

Bone and blood is the price of coal
Bone and blood is the price of coal
Bone and blood is the price of coal
Thanks for your patience thank you