So, what's been that story behind Spring Hill Mining Disaster?

[FallingStar]

I.can't.remember!
Some weeks ago, I still knew it , but it is blown away. What's been Novascotia? A mining town. But what was it that happened there? It had something to do with a strike of the miners or something like that............
I sucks so much to forget the essential parts of daily life.

 

[wertsie]

The song pretty much explains what I know about it...

 

[NicaMom]

Red Hill Moning Town- from "U2 in to the heart"

The logic of the Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Tatcher's free market economic policies had led to a huge increase in the numbers of unemployed, taking the figure to record heights of well over three million.
Among those most disastrously hit were the mining communities of the north of England.

 

[FallingStar]

Red Hill Moning Town- from "U2 in to the heart"......

Well, okay. If it is the same story like behind Red Hill Mining Town then it is okay..........but I thought this Novascotia would be situated in the USA......... and not in England............

 

[wertsie]

Well, okay. If it is the same story like behind Red Hill Mining Town then it is okay..........but I thought this Novascotia would be situated in the USA......... and not in England............

Um...Nova Scotia is a Canadian province, and Spring Hill is a town in Nova Scotia.

 

[Bonochick]

Here are the lyrics from Interference..."Springhill Mining Disaster" is from Rock's Hottest Ticket...there's a little Bono talk at in it...

Bono: "Like to...I'd like to try a song that I think we've only played once before, so. This is a city that a...a lot of Irish people came to this city, right? So this time...this Irish...these Irish people came as rock and roll band, okay? So...but this is a folk song. It's like...the Irish kinda' hold America in a very special place because, for over a hundred years or more, Irish have come over here to find work and find a future. And they brouught with them songs, old Irish folk songs that became old American folk songs. And, I hope maybe we'd leave behind some songs one day. This is a song written by Peggy Seeger. It's a song...I wished I'd heard this song on the radio during the miners' strike in England a few years ago. This is called Springhill Mining Disaster."

In the town of Springhill Nova Scotia
Down in the dark of the Cumberland mine
There's blood on the coal, and the miners lie
In roads that never saw sun or sky
Roads--


Bono: "Shut up for a second, will you? Stop whistling 'cause I'm not in the Beatles, okay? It's U2 here."

In the town of Springhill
They don't sleep easy
Often the earth will tremble and roll
When the earth is restless
Miners die


Bone and blood is the price of coal
Bone and blood is the price of coal


Listen to the shouts of the black faced miner
Listen to the call of the rescue team
We have no water, light or bread
So we're living on songs and hope instead
Living on songs and hope instead


In the town of Springhill Nova Scotia
Down in the dark of the Cumberland mine
There's blood on the coal, and the miners lie
In roads that never saw sun or sky
Roads that never saw sun nor sky


In the town of Springhill
Don't sleep easy
Often the earth will tremble and roll
When the earth is restless
Miners die


Bone and blood is the price of coal
Bone and blood is the price of coal
Bone and blood is the price of coal


Bono: "Thanks for your patience. Thank you."

 

[FallingStar]

Bono: "Like to...I'd like to try a song that I think we've only played once before, so. This is a city that a...a lot of Irish people came to this city, right? So this time...this Irish...these Irish people came as rock and roll band, okay? So...but this is a folk song. It's like...the Irish kinda' hold America in a very special place because, for over a hundred years or more, Irish have come over here to find work and find a future. And they brouught with them songs, old Irish folk songs that became old American folk songs. And, I hope maybe we'd leave behind some songs one day. This is a song written by Peggy Seeger. It's a song...I wished I'd heard this song on the radio during the miners' strike in England a few years ago. This is called Springhill Mining Disaster."

Ah, right. That thing about Irish Americans and American folk songs! Thank you so much, Bonochick. I wouldn't have remembered that, but I read it alreday a while ago. Thanks.

Bono: "Shut up for a second, will you? Stop whistling 'cause I'm not in the Beatles, okay? It's U2 here."

@ quote above.

And thank you Wertsie as well! I didn't knew that Nova Scotia is a Canadian province.

 

[adamswildhoney]

such a sad song but very beatiful1