Chords for Ballad of Springhill - Ewan MacColl

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_ [G] In the town of [Eb] Spring [C] Hill, _ [Bb] you _ [G] don't have to be a miner.
_ In the town of Spring Hill, you don't have to be a miner.
_ _ _ In the town [C]
of Spring [Bb] Hill, [A] _ [G] you don't have to be a miner.
In the _ _ [Bb] _ town of Spring Hill, you don't have [C] to be _ _ [Bb] a miner.
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In the town [F] of Spring Hill, you don't have [C] to be [F] _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ a _ _ _ _ miner.
[G] In the town [Bb] of Spring [Cm] Hill, you don't have to be a miner.
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_ _ [G] _ _ The earth [F] will tremble [Cm] and roll when the earth [Fm] is restless, [Bb] _ [A] _
[G] miners _ die.
[C] _ Bone [Bb] and blood [Ab] is the price [Bb] of coal.
[C] Bone [Bb] and blood [C] is the [Gm] price of coal.
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[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] In the town [Bb] of Spring [Cm] Hill, _ [Bb] Nova _ Scotia, [Cm] _ late in the year [C] of _ _ [Cm] 58, _
_ Day still [Fm] _ comes and the [F] sun [G] still shines, [Cm] but it's dark [Bb] as the grave _ [Cm] _ _ _ [Bb] _
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[C] in the Cumberland [G] mine. _ _ _
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[C] _ Down at [Bb] the coal [C] face, miners [Bb] _ seek [C] in the rattle of the belts [Fm] and the [C] cutter's blade.
_ Rumble [Fm] of [Bb] rock and the wall's [G] claws _ [Cm] rumble, living _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ and [Bb] the dead men [C] [F] too.
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[Bb] _ _ [G] _ Twelve [Bb] men lay two [Cm] miles from [Bb] the bridge [Cm] shaft.
Twelve men lay [Fm] in the dark [Cm] and sang.
_ Long [F] hot days [Bb] in [Am] a _ [G] miner's tomb.
It [C] was three [Bb] feet high [Cm] and a hundred [Bb] long.
_ _ [C] _ Three [Bb] feet high [G] and a hundred _ long. _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [G] _ Three [Bb] days passed [Cm] and the lamps [Bb] gave out [Cm] and Caleb _ rushed [Fm] and he up [Cm] and said,
There's no [G] more water, no light, no bread, so [Cm] we'll live [Bb] on songs [Cm] and hope [Bb] instead.
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Live [Bb] on songs [C] and hope [Gm] instead. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ [Bb] _ _ [C] Listen [Bb] for the shouts [Cm] of the bare [Bb]-faced miners [G] who whisked through the rubble [Fm] for a rescue [Cm] team.
Six hundred [F] _ feet [Bb] of [G] coal and slag.
[C] _ Hope [Bb] imprisoned in [Cm] a three-foot [Bb] _ seam.
[Cm] Hope _ [Bb] imprisoned in a [C] three-foot [Gm] _ seam. _ _ _
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Eight [Bb] days passed [G] and some [Bb] were [Cm] rescued, _ leaving the dead [F] to lie [Cm] _ alone.
Through all [Fm] their lives [Bb] they _ dug [G] a grave [Cm] two miles [Bb] _ over for [Cm] a marking [Bb] stone.
_ [G] Two miles [Bb] over [C] for a marking [Gm] _ stone. _
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