Scofield Mine Disaster
(Chorus)
Don’t you see that funeral train
Don’t you see that funeral train,
Rolling down that lonesome valley
It’s the long-est one I’ve seen.
May the first was bright and clear,
Nineteen hundred was the year;
A great explosion rocked our town,
While the men were underground.
When we gathered at the slide
We thought that just a few had died,
Fought our way in past the mine head,
Carried out two hundred dead.
When we brought them to the light,
It was a black and awful sight,
In one family there was nine
Lost inside that burning mine.
A miner’s life is hard I know,
His world is dark and far below,
While he starves and goes in rags,
He’s cheaper than the coal he digs.
A miner’s life is hard I know,
His world is dark and far below,
While he starves and goes in rags,
He’s cheaper than the coal he digs.
Copyright c 1973 Bruce Phillips
(Chorus)
Don’t you see that funeral train
Don’t you see that funeral train,
Rolling down that lonesome valley
It’s the long-est one I’ve seen.
May the first was bright and clear,
Nineteen hundred was the year;
A great explosion rocked our town,
While the men were underground.
When we gathered at the slide
We thought that just a few had died,
Fought our way in past the mine head,
Carried out two hundred dead.
When we brought them to the light,
It was a black and awful sight,
In one family there was nine
Lost inside that burning mine.
A miner’s life is hard I know,
His world is dark and far below,
While he starves and goes in rags,
He’s cheaper than the coal he digs.
A miner’s life is hard I know,
His world is dark and far below,
While he starves and goes in rags,
He’s cheaper than the coal he digs.
Copyright c 1973 Bruce Phillips
Performed by Mike and Shauna Iverson
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