Written by Merle Travis
G C D Come all you young fellers, so young and so fine G C G And seek not your fortunes way down in the mine G G D It will form like a habit and seep in your soul G C G 'Til the stream of your blood flows as black as the coal D C G It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew D C G Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few G C D Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines G C G It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines G C D There is many a man I have seen in my day G C G Who lived just to labor his whole life away G C D Like the fiend with his dope and the drunkard his wine G C G A man will have lust for the lure of the mine D C G It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew D C G Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few G C D Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines G C G It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines G C D I hope when I'm dead and the ages shall roll G C G That my body will blacken and turn into coal G C D I will look from the door of my heavenly home G C G And pity the miner a' diggin' my bones D C G It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew D C G Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few G C D Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines G C G It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines G C G It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines G C G It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines
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