Darr Mine Disaster Rose, Sam, Mario

Описание: Rose Akerman had asked me about making a song out of her poem about the Darr Mine Disaster. After several email conversations and different examples, I played a reasonably simple melancholy and reflective folk song. The song then repeats and I asked Mario Mosca to add some harmonica and as a bonus he gave me slide and backup vocals. During this haunting repeat the screen goes black, as it is in a dead mine.

The lyrics are all Rose Akerman's
I wrote the acoustic guitar part and sang it.
Mario Mosca did a great job on the harmonica, slide guitar and backup vocals.

Rose' channel is: ‪@RoseAkerman‬
Mario's channel is: ‪@Dirtysoundfromthemountains‬

Here are the lyrics:

It was a cold 1907 December day
That started like so many
The men and boys from Jacobs Creek
sky ferry’d the Youghiogheny
They spoke in Polish and Hungarian
About Christmas they were planning
As they lit their lamps at the Darr mine
But The number that didn’t come out again
was Two hundred and thirty nine
The foreman, he’d warned of dust and gas
Wanted a vent shaft opened
But no pleas stopped the black powder blasts
That killed them all that day
So they buried them in a common grave
Along with the foreman too
And the courts said Mellon’s not at fault
As they were prone to do.