Fire In The Mine

There was grief among the people of that northern Timmins town
When someone hollered fire, the mine is burnin' down
Then rushing to the surface came those McIntyre men
Then they ready and prepare to let the firefighters in

There's a fire way down in the mine

It was February second in the year of sixty five
A miner's life was taken in the carbon monoxide
The gas had been created, way down a mile or so
In the McIntyre hellfire six thousand feet below

There's a fire way down in the mine

The call went through the northland
For men to fight the flame
From Sudbury to Noranda and from everywhere they came
With oxygen and gas masks, they worked for a month of days
In a 150 degrees of heat, they fought that gassy blaze

There's a fire way down in the mine

The deadly gas kept rising, in the McIntyre high
Till it seeped through the walls and the fire doors
To the Hollinger mine nearby
For nearly a thousand miners now, there was no work below
The word came from the office, boys we have to let you go

There's a fire way down in the mine

The smiles of hope now faded, many faces wore a frown
Must we see our children hungry, must we have to leave the town
Will they have to close the mines up
Bringing trouble strife and woe
Or will they beat the gassy hellfire six thousand feet below

There's a fire way down in the mine

Then at last it was all over, they had sealed the fire in
As it died they called the miners, slowly back to work again
Some may say that it was nothing, and the world may pass it by
But the people up in Timmins, will always hear that awful cry

There's a fire way down in the mine
There's a fire way down in the mine
There's a fire way down in the mine