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folk songs about horrendous industrial accidents

or more generally songs about workers getting wrecked

The Decemberists, Rox In The Box
Midnight Oil, Blue Sky Mine
Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Stan Rogers, White Collar Holler
fifteen million fuckin’ songs about John Henry
A Drop of Nelson’s Blood / Roll The Old Chariot Along

Stan Rogers, Barrett’s Privateers also counts given that it’s a (former) employee complaining about workplace conditions and safety

businesstiramisu said: the internet suggests “Fire in the Mine” by Stompin Tom Conners – title seems apposite

one of the few country songs to rhyme “year of sixty five” with “carbon monoxide”

oh and of course Sixteen Tons

sweet sixteen (tons)

Muddy Coal Mine is such a fucking banger

Springhill Mine Disaster always gives me chills

There’s blood on the coal and the miners lie
In roads that never saw sun nor sky…

I love that Bunch Of People Died Coal Mining is a whole genre

Does night of the Jones Town Flood count? A fake real song….

#so this is Christmas

#and what do you get

#another year older

#and deeper in debt

#saint nick don’t you call me

#cuz I can’t go

#my stocking’s full of

#sixteen tons of coal

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