《Dark As A Dungeon》是Merle Travis演唱的歌曲，收錄於《Folk Songs Of The Hills》專輯中。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Dark As A Dungeon
- 所屬專輯：Folk Songs Of The Hills
- 歌曲原唱：Merle Travis
- 歌曲語言：英語
歌曲歌詞
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-talking 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 living
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
Now sir 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
Sorta like chewing 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 d**e 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 digging my bones
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
