Dark as a Dungeon - The Chieftains

作词：Merle Travis

作曲：Merle Travis

Come all you young fellows so young and so fine

And seek not your fortune way down in the mine

It will form like a habit and seep in your soul

Till the stream of your blood flows as black as the coal

It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew

The danger is many and the pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

There's many a man I have seen in my day

Who lived just to labor his whole life away

Like the fiend with his donk and the drunkard his wine

A man must have lust for the lure of the mine

It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew

The danger is many and the pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

Oh when I am gone and the ages do roll

My body will blacken and turn into coal

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

And pity the miner a-digging my bones

It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew

The danger is many and the pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine