Dark as a Dungeon
                       Merle Travis
G                          C         D
Come listen you fellers so young and fine
   G                            C           G
Oh seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine
                            C            D
It will form as a habit and seep in your soul
         G                          C            G
Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal.

Refrain
     D                     C            G
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
      D                    C             G
Where danger is double and pleasures are few
                                   Em         D
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
     G                     C           G
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.

G                    C           D
It's many a man I've known in my day
    G                       C           G
Who lived just to labor his young life away
                                 C            D
Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine
  G                          C           G
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine.

Refrain

G                                 C             D
The midnight, the morning, or the middle of the day
         G                     C       G
It's the same to the miner who labors away
                              C             D
Where the demons of the death often come by surprise
    G                            C       G
One fall of the slate and you're buried alive.

Refrain

G                            C          D
I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll
   G                     C         G
My body will blacken and turn into coal
                                   C        D
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
    G                C          G
And pity the miner a-diggin' my bones.

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