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the journeymen - dark as a dungeon lyrics

[intro]
(we all have sort of a feeling really about good folk music
that the songs with the simplest chord structures
and the plainest lyrics
are the most beautiful ones
and this is really one of them
written by a fellow named merle travis
called “dark as a dungeon down in the mines”)

+whistling+

[verse 1]
come all you young fellas, so brave and so fine
and seek not your fortune way down in the mine
it will form as a habit and seep in your soul
’til the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal

[chorus]
well, it’s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
where the dangеrs are double and pleasurеs are few
where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
well, it’s dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

[verse 2]
well, it’s many a man i have seen in my day
who lived just to labor his whole life away
like a fiend with his dope or a drunkard his wine
a man must have l+st for the lure of the mines
[chorus]
well, it’s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
where the dangers are double and pleasures are few
where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
well, it’s dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

[verse 3]
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 miners a+diggin’ my bones

[chorus]
well, it’s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
where the dangers are double and pleasures are few
where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
well, it’s dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

[outro]
well, it’s dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

(thank you
thank you
thank you)

- the journeymen lyrics

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