Fire In The Mine

verse 1 There was a grief among the people, in that northern Timmons town When somebody yelled fire, the mine is burnin down Then rushing to the surface came those McIntyre men Then they readied and prepared to let the fire fighters in There's a fire way down in the mine verse 2 It was February second in the year of sixty five A miner life was taken by the carbon monoxide The gas had been created , way down a mile or so In the McIntyre hell fire six Thousand feet below There's a fire, way down in the mine verse 3 The call went through the northland For men to fight the flame From Sudbury to Noranda and from everywhere they came With oxygen and gas masks, they worked for a month of days In a 150 degrees of heat, they faught that gassy blaze There's a fire way down in the mine verse 4 The deadly gas kept rising, in the McIntyre high Til it spread through the walls and the fire doors To the Hollinger mine nearby For nearly a thousand miners now, ther was no work below The word came from the office, boys we have to let you go There's a fire way down in the mine Verse 5 The smiles of hope now faded, many faces wore a frown Must we see our children hungry , must have leave the town Will they have to close the mine up Bringing trouble strife and woe Or will they beat the gassy hellfire six thousand feet below There's a fire way down in the mine Verse 6 Then at last it was all over, they'd sealed the fire in As it died they called the miners, Slowly back to work again Some may say that it was nothing, and the world may pass it by But the people up in Timmins, will always hear that cry There's a fire way down in the hole There's a fire way down in the hole There's a fire way down in the hole There's a fire way down in the hole