"Coke Oven Brook" genre: Folk
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	The story of the coal miner area of Sydney Nova Scotia, and the toxic poisoning that has ruined the lives of many a local resident
	CD: Pipe Street Dreams   Label: Wind River Credits: words and music by James Gordon
	Lyrics We always thought it was a fact, That if there was no smoke from that old smokestack, There would be no bread upon the table; We owed our lives to Sydney Steel, But these dark days you know it feels, Like it's time to pay that debt-- oh if I was able I would take up Enoch's Hammer, And I'd smash that steel plant down; I would leave it just as broken as it has left this town. I'd take those smug mainland owners; make them take a good long look, At the orange water running down through Coke Oven Brook, At the orange water running down through Coke Oven Brook. Arsenic and Mercury, That's the company's legacy; Benzo-pyrene copper and lead. It's up above and it's underneath, And all along Frederick Street They say if you're not sick it's 'cause you're already dead. IF I could take up Enoch's Hammer, I would smash that steel plant down; I would leave it just as broken as it has left this town. I'd take those smug mainland owners; make them take a good long look, At the orange water running down through Coke Oven Brook, At the orange water running down through Coke Oven Brook. That toxic tar filled with PCB's, God we used to chew it to whiten our teeth, Now most of us have been taken with the cancer. We figured working here, that's the way things go, It'll kill you fast or it'll kill you slow, As no questions, get no answers. If I could take up Enoch's Hammer, I would smash that steel plant down; I would leave it just as broken as it has left this town. I'd take those smug mainland owners; make them take a good long look, At the orange water running down through Coke Oven Brook, At the orange water running down through Coke Oven Brook. n

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