Bakelite 78 - Monongah | Текст песни

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Five Hundred miners went to Heaven,
December 6, 1907
Well, Monongah was the coal town's name
From the native tongue is where it came
For it was the indian word for blood
which would prove quite fitting soon enough
Well, the miners knew the ground was haunted
With the name Monongah the natives taunted
Who knows what evil those boys found
While digging deep down in the ground
The rescuers they couldn't breathe
After fifteen minutes they had to leave
'Cause you just can't breathe in the afterdamp
Carbon Monoxide have a sample
Shaft number 6 and Shaft number 8 are connected by ducts that ventilate
but which also act as a path of breath
for a
coal-dust-methane-hellish-fiery death!
As I toil through the firedamp
Well I can't afford a Davy Lamp
I smell the gas I see the spark
Then scorched I choke in the drowning dark
The earthen tomb is mighty cold
For a dozen boys of twelve years old
How could a nightmare like this happen?
I guess I should've stuck to trapping.
No, it wasn't a Native American curse,
the real situation was certainly worse
Complicit in the mine's creation was
Fairmont Coal, and Consolidation
and rest assured that the company mine
would be reopened in one month's time
By boys like me scraping tooth and nail
While Two-Hundred-Fifty widows moan and wail!
And Monongah was the coal town's name
From the native tongue is where it came
For it was the Indian word for blood
Which would prove quite fitting soon enough.
Five Hundred miners went to heaven...
December 6, 1907