《Dark As a Dungeon》歌词

[00:00:00] Dark As A Dungeon - Merle Travis

[00:00:06] It's as dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

[00:00:13] I never will forget one time

[00:00:14] When I was on a little visit down home in Ebenezer Kentucky

[00:00:18] I was a-talking to an old man that had known me ever

[00:00:21] Since the day I was born and an old friend of the family

[00:00:25] He says son you don't know how lucky you are to have a nice job

[00:00:28] Like you've got and don't have to dig out a living

[00:00:30] From under these old hills and hollers

[00:00:32] Like me and your pappy used to

[00:00:35] When I asked him why he never had left

[00:00:37] And tried some other kind of work he says

[00:00:39] Now sir you just won't do that

[00:00:42] If ever you get this old coal dust in your blood

[00:00:44] You're just gonna be a plain old coal miner as long as you live

[00:00:49] He went on to say it's a habit

[00:00:51] Sorta like chewing tobaccer

[00:00:54] Come and listen you fellows so young and so fine

[00:00:59] And seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mines

[00:01:04] It will form as a habit and seep in your soul

[00:01:08] Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal

[00:01:14] It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew

[00:01:18] Where danger is double and pleasures are few

[00:01:23] Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines

[00:01:28] It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

[00:01:40] It's a many a man I have seen in my day

[00:01:44] Who lived just to labor his whole life away

[00:01:49] Like a fiend with his d**e and a drunkard his wine

[00:01:54] A man will have lust for the lure of the mines

[00:01:59] I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll

[00:02:04] My body will blacken and turn into coal

[00:02:09] Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home

[00:02:14] And pity the miner a digging my bones

[00:02:18] It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew

[00:02:24] Where danger is double and pleasures are few

[00:02:28] Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines

[00:02:34] It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine