Dark as a Dungeon - guitar chords and comments
Lyrics without distraction HERE
Songs from and for the working class became Merle Travis' trade mark. Only the two songs "Sixteen Tons" and this one would have given him a place in the history of roots country music, but he wrote a lot more throughout his troublesome career, pestered by alcoholism and other personal problems.Nowadays the song is best remembered from Johnny Cash's live performance at Folsom Prison in 1968 (he recorded it B-side for singel "Understand Your Man" back in '64), but Travis himself recorded it first on "Folk Songs of the Hills", 1946.
E E7 A B7 come and listen you fellows so young and so fine E E7 A E and seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mines E E7 A B7 it will form as a habit and seep in your soul E E7 A E till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal E B5 B7 A E where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew B5 B7 A E where danger is double and pleasures are few E E7 A B7 where the rain never falls and the sun never shines E E7 A E it's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
E
E7
A
B5
B7
