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25 Mar 11 - 06:49 PM (#3121602) Subject: Lyr Req: The Burns Pit Disaster-Bill Sable... From: skarpi hallo all , does any one have this lyric ?? I can´t reach my friend Bill .... untill then kv Skarpi |
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25 Mar 11 - 06:53 PM (#3121608) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Burns Pit Disaster-Bill Sable... From: GUEST,John MacKenzie Try contacting him on Facebook, don't think he comes in here much. |
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25 Mar 11 - 06:54 PM (#3121610) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Burns Pit Disaster-Bill Sable... From: skarpi will do :O) kv Skarpi |
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26 Mar 11 - 09:46 AM (#3121946) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Burns Pit Disaster-Bill Sable... From: bill\sables Hi Scarpi, I'll have to look up the lyrics and send them to you. The song was about the Burns Pit Disaster in Stanley Co. Durham on 15th February 1905. An explosion occured and killed 168 mnen and boys. My father heard the explosion from about three miles away and ran to the pit head which was crowded with wives and children of the miners. Twenty six miners were found still alive. I wrote the song way back in the 60s for a documentary film about the disaster and recorded it on an LP (Bill Sables WRS027) in about 1968. Cheers Bill |
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26 Mar 11 - 11:09 AM (#3121985) Subject: Lyr Add: THE BURNS PIT DISASTER 1909 (Bill Sables) From: bill\sables I got a few facts wrong in the last post; It was on 16th February 1909 and thirty miners got out. I have, however, found the origional words. THE BURNS PIT DISASTER 1909 (Bill Sables) In Stanley town in 1909 On a Tuesday afternoon Thirty lives from a pit were saved But many more had met their doom It was in the second month of the year All upon the sixteenth day When a blast occurred in the Burns pit And one hundred and sixty-eight passed away The families who thronged the pit-shaft head Shed many a bitter tear Then the telephone rang from the Tilley Seam Saying "There's twenty-six still alive down here" They had heard a bang and the lights went out And a cloud of dust had appeared So they ran for the safety at the end of the seam And there they sat and they sang and prayed A rescue team went down next day For to see how things did stand They were met with the sight of their workmates bold Lying dead with their picks and their shovels in their hands A few days passed and the burial came And the mourners lined the way They were laid to rest in two mass graves All hundred and sixty eight who died that day |
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26 Mar 11 - 12:04 PM (#3122009) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Burns Pit Disaster-Bill Sable... From: skarpi Thank you Bill . now start practicing . kv Skarpi |