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 [00:06.14]It's as dark as a dungeon [00:08.94]Way down in the mine [00:11.23] [00:13.24]I never will forget one time [00:14.57]When I was on a little visit down [00:16.04]Home in ebenezer kentucky [00:17.90] [00:18.65]I was a-talking to an old man [00:20.03]That had known me ever [00:21.35]Since the day I was born and [00:22.80]An old friend of the family [00:24.23] [00:25.21]He says son you don't know how [00:26.55]Lucky you are to have a nice job [00:28.36]Like you've got and don't have [00:29.60]To dig out a living [00:30.61]From under these old hills and hollers [00:32.48] [00:33.13]Like me and your pappy used to [00:34.87] [00:35.80]When I asked him why he never had left [00:37.70]And tried some other kind of work he says [00:39.70]Now Sir you just won't do that [00:42.45]If ever you get this old [00:43.41]Coal dust in your blood [00:44.76]You're just gonna be a plain [00:46.28]Old coal miner as long as you live [00:48.35] [00:49.31]He went on to say it's a habit [00:51.46]Sorta like chewing tobaccer [00:53.47] [00:54.92]Come and listen you fellows [00:57.20]So young and so fine [00:59.46]And seek not your fortune [01:02.07]In the dark dreary mines [01:04.49]It will form as a habit [01:06.78]And seep in your soul [01:09.19]Till the stream of your [01:10.99]Blood is as black as the coal [01:13.82] [01:14.43]It's dark as a dungeon [01:16.78]And damp as the dew [01:18.63] [01:19.29]Where danger is double and [01:21.88]Pleasures are few [01:23.60] [01:24.12]Where the rain never falls [01:26.28]And the sun never shines [01:29.11]It's dark as a dungeon [01:31.20] [01:31.71]Way down in the mine [01:33.65] [01:40.95]It's a many a man [01:43.32]I have seen in my day [01:45.58]Who lived just to labor [01:48.38]His whole life away [01:50.55]Like a fiend with his dope [01:52.25] [01:52.98]And a drunkard his wine [01:54.96] [01:55.71]A man will have lust for [01:58.00]The lure of the mines [02:00.22]I hope when I'm gone [02:02.09] [02:02.64]And the ages shall roll [02:05.58]My body will blacken [02:07.58] [02:08.13]And turn into coal [02:10.31]Then I'll look from the door [02:12.58]Of my heavenly home [02:15.21]And pity the miner a [02:18.06]Digging my bones [02:20.00]It's dark as a dungeon [02:22.72]And damp as the dew [02:24.62] [02:25.25]Where danger is double [02:27.47]And pleasures are few [02:30.35]Where the rain never falls [02:32.44]And the sun never shines [02:35.14] [02:35.65]It's dark as a dungeon way [02:39.23]Down in the mine