This song is one part Newfoundland, one part Alberta, and one part Rudyard Kipling. Interesting mix. Taken from Big Sugar's 2001 CD Brothers & Sisters, Are You Ready?, the track is sung from the point of view of a down on his luck Newfoundlander, forced to leave his home (and loathe to do so) due to lack of employment, who is heading for the Alberta oil and natural gas fields where work is plentiful. "A Canadian story song" is how Big Sugar front man Gordie Johnson often introduces the tune in concert (including when I saw them at The Sound Of Music Festival in Burlington, Ontario back in June).

The song's title comes from a Rudyard Kipling quote. During a 1907 trip through Canada, witnissing the flares from the natural gas fields of Alberta inspired the famed English writer to comment, "This part of the country seems to have all hell for a basement, and the only trap door appears to be in Medicine Hat."

The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/bigsugar-allhellforabasement.txt

Audio (studio recording):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hArfQzFpIM4

Live: