Dark as a Dungeon Songtext

von The Journeymen

We have sort of a feeling really about good
Folk music
Are the most beautiful ones.
And this is really one of them,
Written by a fellow named Merle Travis.
It's called "Dark as a Dungeon" down in the mines.

Come all you young fellows so brave and so fine,
And seek not your fortune way down in the mine.
It will form as a habit qnd seep in your soul
Till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal.

Well, it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few.
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines.
Well, it's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.

Well, it's many a man I have seen in my day
Who lived just to labor his whole life away.
Like a fiend with his dope or a drunkard his wine,
A man must have lust for the lure of the mine.

Well, it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few.
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines.
Well, it's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.

I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll
My body will blacken and turn into coal,
That I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
And pity the miners that dig in my bones.

Well, it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few.
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines.
Well, it's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.

Well, it's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.