Dark As a Dungeon-Cisco Houston/Woody Guthrie

[ti:Dark As a Dungeon] [ar:Cisco Houston,Woody Guthrie] [al:Passing Through] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dark As a Dungeon - Cisco Houston/Woody Guthrie [00:04.90]Come all you young fellers [00:06.36]So young and so fine [00:07.75] [00:11.05]And seek not your fortunes way down in the mine [00:15.54] [00:18.10]It will form like a habit and seep in your soul [00:21.16] [00:25.12]Till the stream of your blood flows [00:27.12]As black as the coal [00:29.33] [00:32.21]It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew [00:35.86]Where the dangers are double [00:37.38]And the pleasures are few [00:38.57] [00:40.03]Where the rain never falls [00:41.55]And the sun never shines [00:42.81] [00:46.20]It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines [00:51.23] [00:54.08]There is many a man I have seen in my day [00:57.06] [00:59.98]Who lived just to labor his whole life away [01:03.66] [01:06.76]Like the fiend with his dope [01:08.40]And the drunkard his wine [01:09.96] [01:13.56]A man can have lust for the lure of the mine [01:16.85] [01:19.15]It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew [01:22.47]Where the dangers are double [01:23.84]And the pleasures are few [01:25.03] [01:26.52]Where the rain never falls [01:28.07]And the sun never shines [01:29.32] [01:32.45]It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines [01:37.28] [01:40.98]I hope when I'm dead [01:42.49]And the ages shall roll [01:43.97] [01:46.89]That my body will blacken [01:48.50]And turn into coal [01:51.09] [01:53.63]I will look from the door of my heavenly home [01:56.80] [01:59.72]And pity the miner a digging my bones [02:03.84] [02:06.64]It's dark as a dungeon [02:08.40]And damp as the dew [02:10.33]Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few [02:13.05] [02:15.14]Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines [02:17.94] [02:21.15]It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines