Dark as a Dungeon-Tennessee Ernie Ford

[00:06.105]Come listen, you fellers [00:09.381]So young and so fine [00:12.587]And seek not your fortune [00:15.828]In the dark, dreary mines [00:19.207]It'll form as a habit [00:22.305]And seep in your soul [00:25.643]Till the stream of your blood [00:28.836]Is as black as the coal [00:32.992] [00:33.706]It's dark as a dungeon [00:37.030]And damp as the dew [00:40.332]Where the danger is double [00:43.620]And pleasures are few [00:46.881]Where the rain never falls [00:50.282]And the sun never shines [00:53.608]It's dark as a dungeon [00:56.926]Way down in the mines [01:00.579] [01:04.216]It's many a man [01:07.560]I have known in my day [01:11.179]Who live just to labor [01:14.634]His young life away [01:18.590]Where the demons of death [01:21.736]Often come by surprise [01:25.470]One fall of the slate [01:28.733]And you're buried alive [01:32.626] [01:34.268]I hope when I'm gone [01:37.612]And the ages shall roll [01:40.905]My body will blacken [01:44.467]And turn into coal [01:48.015]Then I'll look from the door [01:51.576]Of my heavenly home [01:54.986]And pity the miner [01:59.026]Digging my bones [02:02.720] [02:03.925]It's dark as a dungeon [02:07.435]And damp as the dew [02:11.010]Where danger is double [02:14.446]And pleasures are few [02:18.099]Where the rain never falls [02:21.601]And the sun never shines [02:27.185]It's dark as a dungeon [02:33.324]Way down in the mines