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Peggy Seeger

The Ballad Of Springhill

Peggy Seeger

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Dificuldade: media | Estilo: popular | Sentimento: sentimental | Ocasião: violao | Tags: folk, balada, conta-historia, acustico, melancolica, medio, violao

"The Ballad of Springhill", com credito para Peggy Seeger. Essa gravacao aparece relacionada ao lancamento "First Time Ever: Songs From a

Memoir" (ano 2017, pais GB, status Official). Alan Seeger foi um poeta americano que lutou e morreu na Primeira Guerra Mundial durante a Batalha do Somme, servindo na Legião Estrangeira Francesa. Seeger era irmão de Elizabeth Seeger, autora e educadora infantil, e de Charles Seeger, um notável pacifista e musicólogo americano; ele também era tio dos músicos folk Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger e Mike Seeger. Ele é elogiado pelo poema " I Have a Rendezvous with Death ", favorito do presidente John F. Kennedy. Uma estátua que o representa está no monumento da Place des États-Unis, em Paris, homenageando os americanos caídos que se ofereceram como voluntários para a França durante a guerra. Seeger é às vezes chamado de " Rupert Brooke americano". Luke Kelly, foi um cantor e músico irlandês de Dublin, Irlanda, notável como um dos membros fundadores da banda The Dubliners.

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Simplificar Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste [Verse 1] Cm Bb Cm Bb In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia Cm F Cm Down in the dark of the Cumberland Mine Cm F Bb G7 There's blood on the coal and the miners lie Cm Bb Cm Bb In the roads that never saw sun nor sky Cm Bb Cm Gm Roads that never saw sun nor sky [Verse 2] Cm Bb Cm Bb In the town of Springhill, you don't sleep easy Cm F Cm Often the earth will tremble and roll Cm F Bb G7 When the earth is restless, miners die Cm Bb Cm Bb Bone and blood is the price of coal Cm Bb Cm Gm Bone and blood is the price of coal [Verse 3] Cm Bb Cm Bb In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia Cm F Cm Late in the year of '58 Cm F Bb G7 Day still comes and the sun still shines Cm Bb Cm Bb But it's dark as the grave in the Cumberland mines Cm Bb Cm Gm Dark as the grave in the Cumberland mines [Verse 4] Cm Bb Cm Bb Down at the coal face, miners working Cm F Cm Rattle of the belts and the cutter's blade Cm F Bb G7 Rumble of rock and the walls close 'round Cm Bb Cm Bb The living and the dead men two miles down Cm Bb Cm Gm Living and the dead men two miles down [Verse 5] Cm Bb Cm Bb Twelve men lay two miles from the pitshaft Cm F Cm Twelve men lay in the dark and sang Cm F Bb G7 Long hot days in a miner's tomb Cm Bb Cm Bb It was three feet high and a hundred long Cm Bb Cm Gm Three feet high and a hundred long [Verse 6] Cm Bb Cm Bb Three days passed and the lamps gave out Cm F Cm And Caleb Rushton, he up and said; Cm F Bb G7 "There's no more water nor light nor bread Cm Bb Cm Bb So we'll live on songs and hope instead, Cm Bb Cm Gm Live on songs and hope instead." [Verse 7] Cm Bb Cm Bb Listen for the shouts of the bareface miners Cm F Cm Listen through the rubble for a rescue team Cm F Bb G7 Six-hundred feet of coal and slag Cm Bb Cm Bb Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam Cm Bb Cm Gm Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam [Verse 8] Cm Bb Cm Bb Eight days passed and some were rescued Cm F Cm Leaving the dead to lie alone Cm F Bb G7 Through all their lives they dug a grave Cm Bb Cm Bb Two miles of earth for a marking stone Cm Bb Cm Gm Two miles of earth for a marking stone
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