Tablature dark as a dungeon - Tennessee Ernie Ford

          



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  Date: 7/3/97; 5:10:17 PM

  From: ah827@rgfn.epcc.Edu (Gene L. Graham)

  Subject: DARK AS A DUNGEON

  

  

  DARK AS A DUNGEON

  As Recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Words and music by Merle Travis

  

  [G] Come listen you fellers so [C] young and [D] fine

  Oh [Em] seek not your [G] fortune in the [C] dark dreary [G] mine

  It will form as a habit and [C] seep in your [D] soul

  Till the [Em] stream of your [G] blood is as [C] black as the [G] coal.

  

  Refrain

  It's [D] dark as a dungeon and [C] damp as the [G] dew

  Where [D] danger is double and [C] pleasures are [G] few

  Where the rain never falls and the [C] sun never [D] shines

  It's [Em] dark as a [G] dungeon way [C] down in the [G] mines.

  

  It's many a man I've known in my day

  Who lived just to labor his young life away

  Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine

  A man will have lust for the lure of the mine.

  

  Refrain

  

  The midnight, the morning, or the middle of the day

  It's the same to the miner who labors away

  Where the demons of the death often come by surprise

  One fall of the slate and you're buried alive.

  

  Refrain

  

  I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll

  My body will blacken and turn into coal

  Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home

  And pity the miner a-diggin' my bones.

  

  Refrain 


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 Dark as a dungeon, de Tennessee ernie ford 

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