Dark as a Dungeon - chords, tab and comments
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.
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
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