《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

[00:00:09] 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

[00:00:18] I was a talking to an old man

[00:00:20] That had known me ever

[00:00:21] Since the day I was born and

[00:00:22] An old friend of the family

[00:00:25] He says son you don't know how

[00:00:26] Lucky you are to have a nice job

[00:00:28] Like you've got and don't have

[00:00:29] To dig out a living

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

[00:00:33] 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

[00:00:43] Coal dust in your blood

[00:00:44] You're just gonna be a plain

[00:00:46] 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

[00:00:55] Come and listen you fellows

[00:00:57] So young and so fine

[00:00:59] And seek not your fortune

[00:01:02] In the dark dreary mines

[00:01:04] It will form as a habit

[00:01:06] And seep in your soul

[00:01:09] Till the stream of your

[00:01:11] Blood is as black as the coal

[00:01:14] It's dark as a dungeon

[00:01:16] And damp as the dew

[00:01:19] Where danger is double and

[00:01:22] Pleasures are few

[00:01:24] Where the rain never falls

[00:01:26] And the sun never shines

[00:01:29] It's dark as a dungeon

[00:01:31] Way down in the mine

[00:01:41] It's a many a man

[00:01:43] I have seen in my day

[00:01:45] Who lived just to labor

[00:01:48] His whole life away

[00:01:50] Like a fiend with his dope

[00:01:53] And a drunkard his wine

[00:01:55] A man will have lust for

[00:01:58] The lure of the mines

[00:02:00] I hope when I'm gone

[00:02:02] And the ages shall roll

[00:02:05] My body will blacken

[00:02:08] And turn into coal

[00:02:10] Then I'll look from the door

[00:02:12] Of my heavenly home

[00:02:15] And pity the miner a

[00:02:18] Digging my bones

[00:02:20] It's dark as a dungeon

[00:02:22] And damp as the dew

[00:02:25] Where danger is double

[00:02:27] And pleasures are few

[00:02:30] Where the rain never falls

[00:02:32] And the sun never shines

[00:02:35] It's dark as a dungeon way

[00:02:39] Down in the mine