Fire In The Mine Ukulele tab

	  
verse 1 

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There was a grief among the people,  

in that northern Timmons town  
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When somebody yelled fire, the mine is burnin down 
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Then rushing to the surface came those McIntyre men 
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Then they readied and prepared to let the fire fighters in 

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There's a fire way down in the mine 

verse 2 
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It was February second in the year of sixty five 
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A miner life was taken by the carbon monoxide  
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The gas had been created , way down a mile or so 
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In the McIntyre hell fire six Thousand feet below 

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There's a fire, way down in the mine 

verse 3 

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The call went through the northland 

For men to fight the flame 
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From Sudbury to Noranda and from everywhere they came 
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With oxygen and gas masks, they worked for a month of days 
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In a 150 degrees of heat, they faught that gassy blaze 

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There's a fire way down in the mine 

verse 4 

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The deadly gas kept rising, in the McIntyre high 
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Til it spread through the walls and the fire doors 
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To the Hollinger mine nearby  
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For nearly a thousand miners now, ther was no work below 
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The word came from the office, boys we have to let you go 

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There's a fire way down in the mine 

Verse 5 

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The smiles of hope now faded, many faces wore a frown 
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Must we see our children hungry , must have leave the town 
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Will they have to close the mine up 

Bringing trouble strife and woe 
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Or will they beat the gassy hellfire six thousand feet below 

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There's a fire way down in the mine 

Verse 6 

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Then at last it was all over, they'd sealed the fire in 
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As it died they called the miners,  
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Slowly back to work again 
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Some may say that it was nothing, and the world may pass it by 
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But the people up in Timmins, will always hear that cry 

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There's a fire way down in the hole 
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There's a fire way down in the hole 
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There's a fire way down in the hole 
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There's a fire way down in the hole