Chords:
{t:Dark As A Dungeon}
{artist: Merle Travis}
{key: G}
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPhYwKH30vA Capo 2
{c: Video not Merle Travis version - they keep blocking it }
[G] Come listen you fellers so [C] young and so [D] fine
Oh [Em] seek not your [G] fortune in the [C] dark dreary [G] mine
Where the [G] demons of [C] death often come by sur-[D7]prise
One [Em] fall of the [G] slate and you're [C] buried a-[G]live.
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 [G] 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 [G] many a man I've [C] known in my [D] day
Who [Em] lived just to [G] labor his [C] whole life a-[G]way
Like a [G] fiend with his dope and a [C] drunkard his [D] wine
A [Em] man will have [G] lust for the [C] lure of the [G] mine.
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 [G] 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.
I [G] hope when I'm gone and the [C] ages shall [D] roll
My [Em] body will [G] blacken and [C] turn into [G] coal
Then I'll [G] look from the door of my [C] heavenly [D] home
And [Em] pity the [G] miner a-[C]diggin' my [G] bones.
{c: slow down through verse}
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 [G] 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.
