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Dark As A Dungeon Tab

by Johnny Cash


                                                         
     Oh come all you young fellers, so young and so fine, seek not your 
                                                           
fortune in the dark dreary mind.  It'll form as a habit and seep in your
                                                      
soul, till the stream of you blood runs as black as the coal.  Where it's
                                                                   
dark as the dungeon, damp as the dew.  Danger is double, pleasures are few,
                                                            
where the rain never falls, where the sun never shines, it's dark as the 
                                                                 
dungeon way down in the mine.  Like a man with his dope, like a drunkard with
                                                 
his wife, a man will have lust for the lure of the mine.  And I'll pray when
                                                               
I'm dead, and my ages shall roll, that my body would blacken and turn into
                                                         
coal.  And I'd look from the door of my heavenly home and pity the miner
                                                                  
diggin my bones.  Where it's dark as the dungeon, damp as the dew.  Dangers
                                                              
are double, pleasures are few, where the rain never falls, the sun never 
                                               
shines, it's dark as the dungeon way down in the mine.