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   From: Jason@burslem.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , Abby Sale   
    writes   
   >There are thousands of coal-mining songs, even many trad songs about the   
   >many previous cave-ins in Springhill, itself.  (Vaguely to the point   
   >factoid: This was the 453rd earth movement in the area since 1917).  There   
   >is _also_ "The Springhill Mining Disaster" by Maurice Ruddick, who was   
   >trapped in the mine for 8 1/2 days.   
      
   Is this the song with the refrain "in that dark black hole in the   
   ground", or is that yet another Springhill song?   
      
   >   
   >Steven Sellors and/or Cathryn Ward noted to r.m.f in 1999 on the latter and   
   >wrote: "I like it because it was written by someone actually trapped in the   
   >mine. Now there's something you don't see much in the folk music industry   
   >these days: a song about the working man written by the working man."   
   >   
   >I assume he meant other than as a folksinger.  Do folksingers work?  Well,   
   >not in this context, I guess but Steve may be justified to feel otherwise.   
   >              I am Abby Sale - in Raleigh, North Carolina   
      
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