DARK AS A DUNGEON
JOHNNY CASH
UNEARTHED Version
Words and Music by Merle Travis

INTRO:


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Oh come all you young fellers, so young and so fine.
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And seek not your fortune, in the dark dreary mine.
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It'll form as a habit, and seep in your soul.
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'Til the stream of your blood, runs as black as the coal.


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Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew.
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Danger is double, and the pleasures are few.
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Where the rain never falls, the sun never  shines.
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It's dark as a dungeon, way down in the mine.

INTRO 

Well it's many a man, that I've known in my day.
Who lived just to labor, his whole life away.
Like a fiend with his dope, and a drunkard with his wine.
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine.

And I pray when I'm dead, and my ages shall roll.
That my body would blacken, and turn into coal.
Then I'd look from the door of my Heavenly home.
And pity the miner, a-diggin' my bones.

CHORUS