Dark As a Dungeon

歌词
It's as dark as a dungeon way down in the mine...
I never will forget one time when I was on a little visit down home in Ebenezer, Kentucky.
I was a-talkin' to an old man that had known me ever since the day I was born, and an old friend
of the family. He says, "Son, you don't know how lucky you are to have a nice job like you've got
and don't have to dig out a livin' from under these old hills and hollers like me and your pappy
used to." When I asked him why he never had left and tried some other kind of work, he says,
"Nawsir, you just won't do that. If ever you get this old coal dust in your blood, you're just
gonna be a plain old coal miner as long as you live." He went on to say, "It's a habit (CHUCKLE)
sorta like chewin' tobaccer."
Come and listen you fellows, so young and so fine,
And seek not your fortune in the dark, dreary mines.
It will form as a habit and seep in your soul,
'Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal.
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,
Where danger is double and pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.
It's a-many a man I have seen in my day,
Who lived just to labor his whole life away.
Like a fiend with his **** and a drunkard his wine,
A man will have lust for the lure of the mines.
I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll,
My body will blacken and turn into coal.
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home,
And pity the miner a-diggin' my bones.
where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,
Where danger is double and pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mind.
专辑信息
1.Merle's Boogie Woogie
2.Sioux City Sue
3.Divorce Me C.O.D.
4.Dark As a Dungeon
5.Sixteen Tons
6.Too Much Sugar for a Dime
7.I'm a Natural Born Gamblin' Man
8.Muskrat
9.Crazy Boogie
10.I Am a Pilgrim
11.Lost John Boogie
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13.Fat Gal
14.That's All
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16.Deep South
17.Nine Pound Hammer
18.Cincinnati Lou
19.What a Shame
20.Over by Number Nine
21.Missouri
22.Steel Guitar Rag
23.So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed
24.Sweet Temptation
25.Done Rovin'
26.John Henry
27.Blues, Stay Away from Me