Dark As A Dungeon - Merle Travis Chord Chart

DARK AS A DUNGEON

-Merle Travis

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Intro: First line

Come all you young fellas, so fair and so fine, and seek not your fortune in the dark, dreary mine.

It will form as a habit and seep in your soul till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal

Well it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew

Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines

coda

Well it's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines (after last chorus, go to

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It's many a man I have seen in my day, who lived just to labor his whole life a-way

Like a fiend with his dope or a drunkard his wine, a man must have lust for the lure of the mine

Well it's dark....

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