Fountain Filled With Blood



There is a fountain filled with blood

The blood of our mining men so brave

Who worked together in the black coal pits

Men who dug each other's graves

Burden pattern: Men who dug each other's graves, O Lord,

Men who dug each other's graves.

Who worked together in the black coal pits

Men who dug each other's graves.



There is a fountain filled with tears

The tears of our children and our wives

The widows and orphans of mining men

Who so senselessly have died



There is a river filled with blood

That once ran so beautiful and grand

'Til the strip)miners tore down our mountainside

Now it runs brown with the blood of our land



There is a fountain filled with blood

The blood of our brave mining men

Let us stand beneath its powerful flood

Be revived to fight and to win.



written by Joan Boyd

From the singing of Helen Schneyer,

recorded on "On the Hallelujah Line", Folk Legacy records

Tune: "Fountain filled with blood," traditional hymn,

written or transcribed by Lowell Mason, found in many hymn books

Contributed to this archive by Charlie Baum

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