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 [00:06.28]It's as dark as a dungeon [00:09.07]Way down in the mine [00:11.37] [00:13.38]I never will forget one time [00:14.71]When I was on a little visit down [00:16.18]Home in ebenezer kentucky [00:18.04] [00:18.79]I was a-talking to an old man [00:20.17]That had known me ever [00:21.49]Since the day I was born and [00:22.94]An old friend of the family [00:24.36] [00:25.35]He says son you don't know how [00:26.69]Lucky you are to have a nice job [00:28.50]Like you've got and don't have [00:29.74]To dig out a living [00:30.75]From under these old hills and hollers [00:32.62] [00:33.27]Like me and your pappy used to [00:35.01] [00:35.94]When I asked him why he never had left [00:37.84]And tried some other kind of work he says [00:39.84]Now Sir you just won't do that [00:42.59]If ever you get this old [00:43.55]Coal dust in your blood [00:44.90]You're just gonna be a plain [00:46.42]Old coal miner as long as you live [00:48.49] [00:49.45]He went on to say it's a habit [00:51.60]Sorta like chewing tobaccer [00:53.61] [00:55.05]Come and listen you fellows [00:57.34]So young and so fine [00:59.60]And seek not your fortune [01:02.21]In the dark dreary mines [01:04.63]It will form as a habit [01:06.91]And seep in your soul [01:09.33]Till the stream of your [01:11.13]Blood is as black as the coal [01:13.96] [01:14.57]It's dark as a dungeon [01:16.92]And damp as the dew [01:18.76] [01:19.43]Where danger is double and [01:22.02]Pleasures are few [01:23.74] [01:24.26]Where the rain never falls [01:26.42]And the sun never shines [01:29.25]It's dark as a dungeon [01:31.33] [01:31.85]Way down in the mine [01:33.79] [01:41.09]It's a many a man [01:43.46]I have seen in my day [01:45.72]Who lived just to labor [01:48.51]His whole life away [01:50.69]Like a fiend with his dope [01:52.39] [01:53.11]And a drunkard his wine [01:55.10] [01:55.85]A man will have lust for [01:58.14]The lure of the mines [02:00.36]I hope when I'm gone [02:02.22] [02:02.78]And the ages shall roll [02:05.72]My body will blacken [02:07.72] [02:08.27]And turn into coal [02:10.45]Then I'll look from the door [02:12.72]Of my heavenly home [02:15.35]And pity the miner a [02:18.20]Digging my bones [02:20.14]It's dark as a dungeon [02:22.86]And damp as the dew [02:24.76] [02:25.39]Where danger is double [02:27.61]And pleasures are few [02:30.48]Where the rain never falls [02:32.58]And the sun never shines [02:35.28] [02:35.79]It's dark as a dungeon way [02:39.37]Down in the mine