Bee Gees - New York Mining Disaster 1941

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In the event of something happening to me,
there is something I would like you all to see.
It's just a photograph of someone that I knew.

Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?
Do you know what it's like on the outside?
Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones.

I keep straining my ears to hear a sound.
Maybe someone is digging underground,
or have they given up and all gone home to bed,
thinking those who once existed must be dead.

Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?
Do you know what it's like on the outside?
Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones.

In the event of something happening to me,
there is something I would like you all to see.
It's just a photograph of someone that I knew.

Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?
Do you know what it's like on the outside?
Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones.

 

Note

The song was the first success of the Bee Gees (# 12 in the UK, Spring 1967). The title of this song of the Australian group refers to a mine disaster, but can be also referred to throughout as someone was buried under a landslide. Even the dating to 1941 and the location seem symbolic, because no such tragedy occurred in New York that year and the Bee Gees performed at concerts the song dressed as the 800 American pioneers. It seems that the inspiration has come instead from the Aberfan mining disaster in Wales (October 1966). A tragedy that did not involve directly the local coal mine, but that was caused by the landslide of a mountain of waste materials, that has fallen on some houses and the school of the town, killing 144 people, 116 of whom were children.

A cover in Italian was published by The Motowns, an UK band, with the title Mr. Jones.

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