Dark As A Dungeon

	  		 
Intro: A

verse 1 

A                A7            D            E 
Come listen you fellows     so young and so fine 
    A                            D           A 
And seek not your fortune   in a dark dreary mine 
                A7             D            E 
It'll form as a habit       an seep in your soul 
         A                          D            A 
Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal 


     E            E7           D           A 
It's dark as a dungeon      an damp as the dew 
      E               E7        D             A 
Where troubles are doubled  and pleasures are few 
                      A7            D         E 
Where the rain never falls  And the sun never shines 
    A                           D           A 
Its dark as a dungeon       way down in the mine 



riff   A  D  A 

verse 2 

A                    A7             D          E 
Well I hope when I'm gone   and the ages shall roll 
   A                            D         A 
My body will blacken        and turn into coal 
                        A7         D        E 
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home  
    A               D          A 
And pity the miners digging my bones 

verse 3 

A                  A7                D         E 
The midnight   the morning    or the middle of day 
       A                          D      A  
Is the same to the miner      who labors away. 
                    A7              D       E 
Where the demons of death     often come by surprise, 
    A                            D      A 
One fall of the slate and you're buried alive. 


E                E7       D           A 
Its dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew 
      E            E7       D             A 
Where danger is doubled and pleasures are few 
                     A7               D         E 
Where the rain never falls    And the sun never shines 
    A                     D           A 
Its dark as a dungeon way down in the mine