BLANTYRE EXPLOSION, THE

Created on 26/04/2024
Latest update on 26/04/2024

Artist: Ewan MacColl
Author: traditional
Label: Topic
Year: 1957

Roud #1014. Ballad about the worst Scottish mine disaster ever, in High Blantyre near Glasgow in October 1877, with more than 200 casualties. Lyrics printed bij A.L. Lloyd in his songbook Coaldust Ballads ('52).

Covers:

1964:

Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger

1965:

Ian Campbell Folk Group [on album Coaldust Ballads]

1976:

Dubliners

1986:

Dick Gaughan

1990:

Strawbs

2003:

Niamh Parsons

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