Dark As A Dungeon

	  		



         C                      F            G 
Come and listen you fellows, so young and so fine 
    C                             F           C 
And seek not your fortunes in the dark dreary mines 
                            F            G 
It will form as a habit and seep in your soul 
         C                            F            C 
'Til the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal 

 
           G                     C 
Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew 
      G                    F             C 
Where danger is double and pleasures are few 
                                   F         G 
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines 
     C                     F           C 
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines 



                         F           G 
It's a many a man I have known in my day 
    C                        F           C 
Who lived just to labour his whole life away 
                                 F            G 
Like a fiend with his dope, or a drunkard his wine 
  C                          F           C 
A man will have lust for the lure of the mines 


           G                     C 
Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew 
      G                    F             C 
Where danger is double and pleasures are few 
                                   F         G 
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines 
     C                     F           C 
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines 



INTERLUDE: C    F  C 


                                         F         G 
Well, the midnight or the morning or the middle of day 
       C                 F        C 
Is the same to the miner digging away 
                                F          G 
Where the demons of death often come by surprise 
    C                            F       C 
One fall of the slate and you're buried alive 


           G                     C 
Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew 
      G                    F             C 
Where danger is double and pleasures are few 
                                   F         G 
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines 
     C                     F           C 
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines 



                                   F          G 
Well, I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll 
   C                     F         C 
My body will blacken and turn into coal 
                                   F        G 
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home 
    Am       Em    F          C 
And pity the miner digging my bones 

 
           G                     C 
Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew 
      G                    F             C 
Where danger is double and pleasures are few 
                                   F         G 
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines 
     C                     F           C 
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines 
         Am        G           F           C         F  F6  C 
Oh, it's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines