Dark as the Dungeon
by Johnny Cash
[Verse 1]
E A B
Oh, come all you young fellers, young and so fine
E A E
Seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine
A B
It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul
E A E
'Till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal
[Chorus]
B A E
Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
B A E
Danger is double, pleasures are few
A B
Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines
E A E
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
[Verse 2]
E
Like a fiend with his dope,
A B
And a dropper with his wine
E A E
A man will have less for the lure of the mine
A B
And, I pray when I'm dead and the ages shall roll
E A E
That my body would blacken and turn into coal
A B
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
E
And pity the miner digging my bones
[Chorus]
B A E
Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
B A E
Danger is double, pleasures are few
A B
Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines
E A E
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
