14.Springhill Mining Disaster
Lyrics：Peggy Seeger
Music：Peggy Seeger
Bono：'Like to...I'd like to try a song that I think we've only
played once
before, so. This is a city that a...a lot of Irish people came
to this city, right？
So this time...this Irish...these Irish people came as rock and
roll band, okay？
So...but this is a folk song. It's like...the 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 brouught 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 song...I wished I'd heard this song on the raidio
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--
Bono： '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
Bono： 'Thanks for your patience. Thank you.'
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