文本歌词

Dark As A Dungeon - Merle Travis
It's as dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine
I never will forget one time
When I was on a little visit down
Home in ebenezer kentucky
I was a-talking to an old man
That had known me ever
Since the day I was born and
An old friend of the family
He says son you don't know how
Lucky you are to have a nice job
Like you've got and don't have
To dig out a living
From under these old hills and hollers
Like me and your pappy used to
When I asked him why he never had left
And tried some other kind of work he says
Now Sir you just won't do that
If ever you get this old
Coal dust in your blood
You're just gonna be a plain
Old coal miner as long as you live
He went on to say it's a habit
Sorta like chewing tobaccer
Come and listen you fellows
So young and so fine
And seek not your fortune
In the dark dreary mines
It will form as a habit
And seep in your soul
Till the stream of your
Blood is as black as the coal
It's dark as a dungeon
And damp as the dew
Where danger is double and
Pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
And the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine
It's a many a man
I have seen in my day
Who lived just to labor
His whole life away
Like a fiend with his dope
And a drunkard his wine
A man will have lust for
The lure of the mines
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
Digging my bones
It's dark as a dungeon
And damp as the dew
Where danger is double
And pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
And the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way
Down in the mine