Dark as a Dungeon

This is a song by Merle Travis, his brother
 It's a story I heard one time
 They got offered a record deal to do an album of coal mining songs
 And uh, they had two weeks
 So during those two weeks they wrote this song
 Which is called, "Dark as a Dungeon"
 They wrote a song called, "Nine Pound Hammer"
 They wrote a song called, "Sixteen Times"
 Damn, hard two weeks
 Come all young fellers
 So young and so fine
 Seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine
 It'll form as a habit
 Seep in your soul
 'Til the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal
 It's dark as a dungeon
 Damp as a dew
 Danger is double
 And the pleasures are few
 Where the rain never falls
 The sun never shines
 Dark as a dungeon
 Way down in the mine
 Well it's the man that I've seen in my day
 He lived just to labor his whole life away
 Like the fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine
 A man will have lust for the lure of the mind
 It's dark as a dungeon
 Damp as a dew
 Danger is double
 And the pleasures are few
 Where the rain never falls
 The sun never shines
 It's dark as a dungeon
 Way down in the mine
 Russell
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 Hear damn Douglas
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 That's what he said
 He said, "I hope when I die and the ages do roll
 My body will blacken
 And turn into coal
 And I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
 And pity the miner that's digging my bones"
 'Cause it is dark as a dungeon
 Damp as a dew
 Danger is double
 And the pleasures are few
 Where the rain never falls
 The sun never shines
 It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
 Where the rain never falls
 And the sun never shines
 It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
 Yes sir, a real bobtail monkey