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From: Tbyrge1@aol.com
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:08:28 EDT
Subject: Dark as a Dungeon   Recorded by:Johnny Cash

Dark as a Dungeon 
Recorded by:Johnny Cash 
Written by: M. Travis 
Recorded:November 12, 1963 Nashville, Tennessee 
 
I noticed some problems with other songs I sent to COWPIE. Here's the correct  
way. 
 
Oh come all you young fellows young and so fine 
Seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine 
It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul 
Til' the stream of your blood runs as black the coal 
 
Chorus: Where it's dark as a dungeon damp as the dew 
Danger is doubled pleasures are few 
Where the rain never falls the sun never shines 
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine 
 ΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚ 
Well I pray when I'm dead the ages shall roll 
That my body will blacken and turn into coal 
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home 
And pity the miner digging my bones 
 
Chorus