Let me tell you the story, as sad as it's true			Am -  F  Am
	Of the 17 men of the Easthill Mine crew				F  Am  E  Am

They were digging for copper for telephone wires		Am  -  F  Am
When the pitshaft was blocked by a terrible fire		F  Am  E  -
Escape was cut off by the flames and the ash			Am  -  F  -
Yet they might have been rescued but for that ship crash	F  Am  Dm  E

	Let me tell you the story, as sad as it's true			Am  -  F  Am
	Of the 48 sailors and the 17 men of the Easthill Mine crew	F  Am  F  Am  E  Am
										(etc)
The S.S. Kentucky was badly off course
To've arrived in the tailing pond instead of the port
She ran aground in the smoke at the top of the mine
Which also obscured the rail passenger line

	Let me tell you the story, as sad as it's true
	Of the 94 train passengers, 48 sailors and the 17 men of the Easthill Mine crew

Though your train's engineer may be valiant and skilled
If your train hits a steamship, you're bound to be killed
Yet this terrible wreck would have caused much less fuss
If the train had avoided that yellow school bus

	Let me tell you the story, as sad as it's true
	Of Miss Mullen's first grade class, the 94 train passengers, 48 sailors and the 17 men 
	of the Easthill Mine crew

Those poor tots and their teacher were on a school visit
To the Easthill Mine's Safety Museum exhibit
Their passing was tragic but mercifully fast - 
They probably ne'er saw pups caught in the blast

	Let me tell you the story, as sad as it's true
	Of the 8 orphan puppies, Miss Mullen's first grade class, the 94 train passengers, 48 
	sailors and the 17 men of the Easthill Mine crew

The dogs had been rescued that day from the pound		
And those brave orphan pups to a new life were bound		
To a school to be trained as guide dogs for the blind		
But their truck's awful luck took them past Easthill Mine	

   And they avoided the mineshaft			F  Am
   And the ship and the train wrecks			F  Am
   And they swerved around the burning school bus	F  Am
   When suddenly a jet containing 50 tiny babies and the only sample of the cure for cancer 
   crashed in to them in a fiery explosion whose unlikely seismic repercussions triggered a 
   volcanic eruption!  	(F  Am)
   Ohhhhh!						E			

	And that was the story, as sad as it's true				Am -  F  Am
	Of the lava-covered major urban centres of the eastern seaboard, the 50 tiny babies, the 
	lost cure for cancer, the 8 orphan puppies, Miss Mullen's first grade class, the 94 train 
	passengers, 48 sailors and the 17 men of the Easthill Mine crew		(F  Am)  E  Am