Dark As A Dungeon
Merle Travis
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1. Come and listen you fellers so young and so fine
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And seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mines
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It will form as a habit and seep in your soul
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Till the stream of your blood, runs as black as the coal
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2. There's many a man I've known in my day
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who lived just to labor his whole life away
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Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine
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A man will have lust, for the lure of the mine
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3. The midnight, the morning, or the middle of the day
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It's the same to the miner who labors away
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Where the demons of death often come by surprise
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One fall of the slate, and you're buried alive
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4. I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll
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My body will blacken and turn into coal
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And I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
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And I'll pity the miner, digging my bones
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Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
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Where the danger is double and the pleasures are few
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Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
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Well it's dark as a dungeon, way down in the mines
Tim Madsen
Nobody cares how much you know,
until they know how much you care.
"What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away you keep forever." -Axel Munthe
