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| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Dark As The Dungeon | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 154 | | | | Lyrics: | DARK AS THE DUNGEON
(Merle Travis)
Come all you young fellers so young and so
fine
And seek not your fortune in the dark, dreary mine
It will form as a habit and seep
in your soul
'Til the blood of your veins runs as black as the coal
Where it's
dark as the dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the dangers are many and the pleasures are
few
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as the dungeon
way down in the mines
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
I hope when I'm gone and the ages do roll
My body will
blacken and form into coal
Then I'll look down from the door of my Heavenly home
And pity
the miner a-digging my bones
The midnight, the morning, the breaking of day
Are the
same to the miner who labors away.
Where the demons of death often come by surprise,
One
slip of the slate and you're buried alive.
(Note: Travis composed the last verse, and
used it in some
concerts. It did not appear on his, or Ernie Ford's record)
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