Dark as a Dungeon

Merle Travis

Oh come all you young fellers so young and so fine
Seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine
It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul
Till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal
Where it's dark as a dungeon damp as the dew danger is double pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls the sun never shines
It's a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

Well it's many a man that I've seen in my day
(uh huh no laughing during this song please it's being recorded)
Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard with his wine
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine
And pray when I'm dead and my ages shall roll
That my body would blacken and turn into coal
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home and pity the miner digging my bones
Where it's dark as a dungeon

Trivia about the song Dark as a Dungeon by Johnny Cash

On which albums was the song “Dark as a Dungeon” released by Johnny Cash?
Johnny Cash released the song on the albums “Old Golden Throat” in 1968, “Unearthed” in 2003, “Unearthed 1: Who’s Gonna Cry” in 2003, and “Singles Plus” in 2014.
Who composed the song “Dark as a Dungeon” by Johnny Cash?
The song “Dark as a Dungeon” by Johnny Cash was composed by Merle Travis.

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