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15 Aug 07 - 09:31 PM (#2126560) Subject: List of Mining Disaster Songs From: The Fooles Troupe Recently there was the Anniversary of The Box Flat Mining Disaster (Ipswich, Queensland Australia). The News showed a guy strumming an autoharp singing part of a mournful song. I didn't recognise the song from the short fragment. Which got me thinking - was that a specific song about Box Flat, and even more so, just how many Mining Disater songs are there? I've found a few from the title filter, if you find any more, please link them here. Tune Req: Tadley Treacle Mining Disaster Lyr Req: Springfield Mining Disaster Springhill Mining Disaster - TV Documentary Trimdon Grange Mining Disaster Robin |
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15 Aug 07 - 09:47 PM (#2126569) Subject: RE: List of Mining Disaster Songs From: Bob the Postman Fairmont Mine Explosion by Blind Alfred Reed. |
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15 Aug 07 - 11:14 PM (#2126626) Subject: RE: List of Mining Disaster Songs From: fumblefingers The Browder Explosion - Merle Travis - Songs of the Coal Mines |
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16 Aug 07 - 12:06 AM (#2126667) Subject: RE: List of Mining Disaster Songs From: Desert Dancer A scan of the list resulting from a DT search on @miners shows quite a few... |
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16 Aug 07 - 04:48 AM (#2126769) Subject: RE: List of Mining Disaster Songs From: GUEST,PMB Aaaaagh no... I remember one evening in a folk club years ago when the regulars had decided on the theme of mining disasters... four suicides before the interval, I survived only because a small group of us climbed under a table and sang Dream Dream Dream until the rescuers came... You've heard of the Gresford disaster, The one with the waggly tail, 262 colliers were lost And I do hope that dog is for sale! bow wow. |
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16 Aug 07 - 05:07 AM (#2126775) Subject: Lyr Add: ABERFAN COAL TIP TRAGEDY (Thom Parrott) From: bfdk This one, although the tragedy didn't happen *in* the mine..: The Aberfan Coal Tip Tragedy (Thom Parrott) The mining men of Wales are hardy, strong and bold And they tunnel in the earth and make it yield its coal But in the town of Aberfan, it's dearer now than gold For one generation for profit has been sold Chorus: How many died in Aberfan When the slag heap came tumbling down How many children will never grow old And how many lives purchased how many tons of coal The little school of Pantglas lay where the mountain loomed And some two hundred children took their classes in its rooms The day fall recess to begin, they went to meet their doom Not knowing the green hollow would soon become their tomb Chorus It was just 9:00 A.M. when they opened up the door And in came the students, two hundred, maybe more But nobody knew then what the mountain had in store The lucky ones were tardy, the others are no more Chorus "I played with my big dog and I played with my cat," Signed "Paul, October 21," there's nothing after that For the coal tip came down, and everyone was trapped And now there's only coal slag where little Paul once sat Chorus In eighteen hundred and seventy-four, the first pit shaft went down And they started piling mining waste on the slopes above the town And everybody knew that the practice was unsound But for ninety-two years no better place was found Chorus The National Coal Board said they'd known from the first That the coal tips they'd permitted were a worry and a curse But I've heard that speech so many times, and it always sounds rehearsed If the coal tip was a murderer, the Coal Board's crime was worse Chorus The children were pretty, the children were fine The children went to school in the shadow of the mine But with the coal tip up above, they were running out of time And they were buried alive by the Ministry of Mines. Chorus Best wishes, Bente |
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16 Aug 07 - 10:56 AM (#2127068) Subject: RE: List of Mining Disaster Songs From: 3refs http://www.menofthedeeps.com/home.html |
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16 Aug 07 - 01:18 PM (#2127186) Subject: RE: List of Mining Disaster Songs From: Herga Kitty Jez Lowe's "Last of the Widows" - Easington colliery, May 1951. Keith Marsden's "Morley Main" - lyrics added to Mudcat on thread.cfm?threadid=66658 Kitty |
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16 Aug 07 - 01:38 PM (#2127205) Subject: RE: List of Mining Disaster Songs From: Peter K (Fionn) The parody of PMB's contribution is here: Gresford Distaster |
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16 Aug 07 - 07:23 PM (#2127476) Subject: RE: List of Mining Disaster Songs From: Bob the Postman Maurice Ruddick was one of the miners trapped underground for over a week during the Springhill disaster of 1958. The lyrics and midi-text of a song by this Canadian hero can be found in this thread. |
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17 Aug 07 - 04:34 AM (#2127699) Subject: RE: List of Mining Disaster Songs From: Cats Jon Heslop's 1913 about the Senhennydd mine disaster. |
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17 Aug 07 - 08:58 AM (#2127825) Subject: RE: List of Mining Disaster Songs From: GUEST,Closet BGees Fan Sorry 'bout this...... In the event of something happening to me There is something I would like you all to see It's just a photograph of someone that I knew Have you seen my wife Mr Jones? Do you know what it's like on the other side? Don't go talking too loud you'll cause a landslide Mr Jones.... Couldn't help it |
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17 Aug 07 - 10:37 AM (#2127876) Subject: RE: List of Mining Disaster Songs From: weerover The Blantyre Explosion The Auchengeich Disaster (both of these a few miles from where I am) The West Virginia Mine Disaster Ballad of Springhill |
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17 Aug 07 - 11:53 AM (#2127935) Subject: RE: List of Mining Disaster Songs From: GUEST,Tunesmith I'm not at all sure that "sat" and "trapped" are such a bad rhyme. I pronounce trapped like "trapt", which makes it no worse, for example, than Bob Dylan's man/sand rhyme in "Blowin' in the Wind" |
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17 Aug 07 - 07:17 PM (#2128267) Subject: ADD: Hillcrest Mine (Keelaghan) From: GUEST,Henryp From Bill Doskoch: Media, BPS*, Film, Minutiae; One of the worst mine disasters in the Crowsnest -- actually, in Canadian history -- was the Hillcrest mine explosion on Friday, June 19, 1914, which killed 189 miners. The blast was so powerful that some standing at the mine's entrance died. Calgary-based folk singer James Keelaghan wrote a song called Hillcrest Mine. Hillcrest Mine (James Keelaghan) Down in the mines of the Crowsnest Pass It's the men that die in labour Sweating coal from the womb of the pit It's the smell of life they savour And in that mine, young man, you'll find A wealth of broken dreams -- As long and as dark and as black and as wide As the coal in the Hillcrest seam. And they say you don't go, Say you don't go down in the Hillcrest Mine, And they say you don't go, Say you don't go down in the Hillcrest Mine; 'Cause it's one short step, You might leave this world behind, And they say you don't go, Say you don't go down in the Hillcrest Mine. |
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17 Aug 07 - 07:26 PM (#2128275) Subject: RE: List of Mining Disaster Songs From: Bob the Postman Stompin' Tom's "Fire In The Mine" about the Hollinger mine fire of 1928. |