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    "Hoosac Tunnel"genre: Folk
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    CD: Avenue of the Saints   Label: Threshold Music
    Credits: Dana Robinson

    Story Behind the Song
    I took the liberty of writing this song from the point of view of one of the miners who died in a tragic accident while digging the Hoosac Tunnel in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts in 1867.›

    Lyrics
    October fifteen 1867
    The trees were ablaze on the tops of the hills
    We were hired to dig deep into the stone mountain
    So goods could be brought from further west still

    There were many ways to die in the Hoosac Tunnel
    By the water soaked rock, by the black powder in the seams
    Now what I would give for a minute of daylight
    Me and my boys, we are not going to live

    We fell down the shaft after the explosion
    And when we hit bottom there was no air to breathe
    Tending our wounds, and clung to the pieces
    In the cold water we gathered debris

    We sat in the rift of our own crude making
    And called up for mercy but help couldn't hear
    I'm six hundred feet down this Hoosac Mountain
    I'll not see my home nor the snowfall this year

    Goodbye to my love, goodbye my sweet darlin'
    Goodbye my faithful now don't shed a tear
    'Cause when the train runs through this cursed tunnel
    A whistle will blow and call to you dear

    'Cause when the train runs through this cursed tunnel
    A whistle will blow and call to you

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