Dark As A Dungeon-Merle Travis

[ti:Dark As A Dungeon] [ar:Merle Travis] [al:Bob Dylan's Country Selection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dark As A Dungeon - Merle Travis [00:06.33]It's as dark as a dungeon way down in the mine [00:11.50] [00:13.21]I never will forget one time [00:14.64]When I was on a little visit down home in Ebenezer Kentucky [00:17.70] [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 [00:24.31] [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 [00:34.89] [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 [00:48.30] [00:49.09]He went on to say it's a habit [00:50.71] [00:51.32]Sorta like chewing tobaccer [00:53.41] [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 [01:33.37] [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 [02:34.54]It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine