Tennessee Ernie Ford - Dark as a Dungeon guitar chord

(G) Come listen you fellers so (C) young and (D) fine

Oh (Em) seek not your (G) fortune in the (C) dark dreary (G) mine

It will form as a habit and (C) seep in your (D) soul

Till the (Em) stream of your (G) blood is as (C) black as the (G) coal.

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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 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 many a man I've known in my day

Who lived just to labor his young life away

Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine

A man will have lust for the lure of the mine.

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The midnight, the morning, or the middle of the day

It's the same to the miner who labors away

Where the demons of the death often come by surprise

One fall of the slate and you're buried alive.

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I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll

My body will blacken and turn into coal

Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home

And pity the miner a-diggin' my bones.

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