SHUT UP IN THE MINES AT COAL CREEK
Created on 29/09/2022Latest update on 13/10/2022
Artist: Dick Bell
Author: traditional
Label: Challenge
Year: 1930
AKA Green Bailey. Roud #844. Song about a mine explosion in Kentucky in 1902, whereby the entire male adult population of the city of Fraterville was decimated. From the standpoint of the last few survivors stucked, using up their last rations of food, water and oxygen.
Covers:
- 1963:
Roy Acuff [as Shut Up In The Mines]
- 1965:
- 1968:
- 1989:
