Merle Travis - Dark as a dungeon
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Tuning: D G D G B D
Dark as a Dungeon - Merle Travis-
Guitar Open G Tuning: DGDGBD
Banjo Standard G Tuning: gDGBD
Key of D
[Verse 1]
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Co - me all you young fel-lers, so young and so fine
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And seek not your for-tunes way down in the mine
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It will form as a hab-it and seep in your soul
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'Til the stream of your blood flows as black as the coal
[Chorus]
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It's dark as a du - n - geon and damp as the dew
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Where the dan - gers are d - ou - ble and plea - sures are few
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Where the rain ne - ver falls and the sun ne - ver shines
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It's dark as a dun - geon way down in the mines
[Verse 2]
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There is ma - ny a man I have seen in my day
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Who lived just to la - bor his whole life a - way
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Like the fiend with his dope and the drun - kard his wine
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A man will have lust for the lure of the mine
[Chorus]
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It's dark as a du - n - geon and damp as the dew
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Where the dan - gers are d - ou - ble and plea - sures are few
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Where the rain ne - ver falls and the sun ne - ver shines
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It's dark as a dun - geon way down in the mines
[Verse 3]
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I hope when I'm dead and the age - s shall roll
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That my bo - dy will black-en and turn in - to coal
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I will look from the door of my heav - en - ly home
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And pi - ty the min - er a' dig - gin' my bones
[Chorus]
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It's dark as a du - n - geon and damp as the dew
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Where the dan - gers are d - ou - ble and plea - sures are few
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B|----------------------------------------------0------0------------------------|
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D|-4-----2---0-----0----2-----4-------------------------------------------------|
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Where the rain ne - ver falls and the sun ne - ver shines
D|-0---2----4-----4-----2-----0-----------------------0-------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------0----------0--------------------|
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It's dark as a dun - geon way down in the mines