《Dark As A Dungeon》歌词

歌曲： Dark As A Dungeon

所属专辑：Folk Songs Of The Hills

歌手： Merle Travis

时长： 02:46

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Dark As A Dungeon - Merle Travis[00:00:00]

It's as dark as a dungeon way down in the mine[00:00:06]

I never will forget one time[00:00:13]

When I was on a little visit down home in Ebenezer Kentucky[00:00:14]

I was a-talking to an old man that had known me ever[00:00:18]

Since the day I was born and an old friend of the family[00:00:21]

He says son you don't know how lucky you are to have a nice job[00:00:25]

Like you've got and don't have to dig out a living[00:00:28]

From under these old hills and hollers[00:00:30]

Like me and your pappy used to[00:00:32]

When I asked him why he never had left[00:00:35]

And tried some other kind of work he says[00:00:37]

Now sir you just won't do that[00:00:39]

If ever you get this old coal dust in your blood[00:00:42]

You're just gonna be a plain old coal miner as long as you live[00:00:44]

He went on to say it's a habit[00:00:49]

Sorta like chewing tobaccer[00:00:51]

Come and listen you fellows so young and so fine[00:00:54]

And seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mines[00:00:59]

It will form as a habit and seep in your soul[00:01:04]

Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal[00:01:08]

It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew[00:01:14]

Where danger is double and pleasures are few[00:01:18]

Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines[00:01:23]

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine[00:01:28]

It's a many a man I have seen in my day[00:01:40]

Who lived just to labor his whole life away[00:01:44]

Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine[00:01:49]

A man will have lust for the lure of the mines[00:01:54]

I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll[00:01:59]

My body will blacken and turn into coal[00:02:04]

Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home[00:02:09]

And pity the miner a digging my bones[00:02:14]

It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew[00:02:18]

Where danger is double and pleasures are few[00:02:24]

Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines[00:02:28]

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine[00:02:34]