Merle Travis - Dark as a Dungeon
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[00:00.26]Dark As A Dungeon - The Down Homers
[00:06.33]It's as dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
[00:13.21]I never will forget one time
[00:14.64]When I was on a little visit down home in Ebenezer Kentucky
[00:18.59]I was a-talking to an old man that had known me ever
[00:21.23]Since the day I was born and an old friend of the family
[00:25.00]He says son you don't know how lucky you are to have a nice job
[00:28.30]Like you've got and don't have to dig out a living
[00:30.53]From under these old hills and hollers
[00:32.94]Like me and your pappy used to
[00:35.60]When I asked him why he never had left
[00:37.57]And tried some other kind of work he says
[00:39.60]Now sir you just won't do that
[00:42.10]If ever you get this old coal dust in your blood
[00:44.56]You're just gonna be a plain old coal miner as long as you live
[00:49.09]He went on to say it's a habit
[00:51.32]Sorta like chewing tobaccer
[00:54.73]Come and listen you fellows so young and so fine
[00:59.30]And seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mines
[01:04.11]It will form as a habit and seep in your soul
[01:08.83]Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal
[01:14.09]It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
[01:18.84]Where danger is double and pleasures are few
[01:23.55]Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
[01:28.58]It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
[01:40.25]It's a many a man I have seen in my day
[01:44.99]Who lived just to labor his whole life away
[01:49.87]Like a fiend with his d**e and a drunkard his wine
[01:54.94]A man will have lust for the lure of the mines
[01:59.37]I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll
[02:04.63]My body will blacken and turn into coal
[02:09.32]Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
[02:14.24]And pity the miner a digging my bones
[02:18.99]It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
[02:24.08]Where danger is double and pleasures are few
[02:28.95]Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
[02:35.78]It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine