Dark as a Dungeon-Merle Travis

[ti:Dark As a Dungeon] [ar:Merle Travis] [al:Ain't That a Crying Shame, Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dark as a Dungeon - Merle Travis [00:06.02]It's as dark as a dungeon [00:08.82]Way down in the mine [00:11.12] [00:13.12]I never will forget one time [00:14.45]When I was on a little visit down [00:15.92]Home in ebenezer kentucky [00:17.78] [00:18.54]I was a-talking to an old man [00:19.91]That had known me ever [00:21.23]Since the day I was born and [00:22.69]An old friend of the family [00:24.11] [00:25.09]He says son you don't know how [00:26.43]Lucky you are to have a nice job [00:28.25]Like you've got and don't have [00:29.48]To dig out a living [00:30.49]From under these old hills and hollers [00:32.37] [00:33.02]Like me and your pappy used to [00:34.75] [00:35.69]When I asked him why he never had left [00:37.58]And tried some other kind of work he says [00:39.58]Now Sir you just won't do that [00:42.34]If ever you get this old [00:43.29]Coal dust in your blood [00:44.64]You're just gonna be a plain [00:46.16]Old coal miner as long as you live [00:48.23] [00:49.19]He went on to say it's a habit [00:51.35]Sorta like chewing tobaccer [00:53.36] [00:54.80]Come and listen you fellows [00:57.08]So young and so fine [00:59.35]And seek not your fortune [01:01.95]In the dark dreary mines [01:04.38]It will form as a habit [01:06.66]And seep in your soul [01:09.08]Till the stream of your [01:10.87]Blood is as black as the coal [01:13.71] [01:14.32]It's dark as a dungeon [01:16.67]And damp as the dew [01:18.51] [01:19.18]Where danger is double and [01:21.76]Pleasures are few [01:23.48] [01:24.01]Where the rain never falls [01:26.16]And the sun never shines [01:29.00]It's dark as a dungeon [01:31.08] [01:31.60]Way down in the mine [01:33.53] [01:40.83]It's a many a man [01:43.20]I have seen in my day [01:45.47]Who lived just to labor [01:48.26]His whole life away [01:50.44]Like a fiend with his dope [01:52.13] [01:52.86]And a drunkard his wine [01:54.84] [01:55.59]A man will have lust for [01:57.88]The lure of the mines [02:00.11]I hope when I'm gone [02:01.97] [02:02.53]And the ages shall roll [02:05.47]My body will blacken [02:07.47] [02:08.01]And turn into coal [02:10.20]Then I'll look from the door [02:12.47]Of my heavenly home [02:15.09]And pity the miner a [02:17.95]Digging my bones [02:19.88]It's dark as a dungeon [02:22.60]And damp as the dew [02:24.50] [02:25.14]Where danger is double [02:27.36]And pleasures are few [02:30.23]Where the rain never falls [02:32.33]And the sun never shines [02:35.02] [02:35.53]It's dark as a dungeon way [02:39.12]Down in the mine