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Dark As A Dungeon by Merle Travis - Guitar Chords

Artist Merle Travis How to play the guitar chord G.jpg How to play the guitar chord C.jpg How to play the guitar chord D.jpg How to play the guitar chord Em.jpg

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Version 1
            [Verse 1]
G    G                     C         D
Come listen you fellers so young and fine
   Em            G              C           G
Oh seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine
        G                   C            D
It will form as a habit and seep in your soul 
         Em             G           C            G
Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal.

[Chorus]
     D                     C           G
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
      D                    C             G
Where danger is double and pleasures are few
          G                        C         D
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
     Em        G           C           G
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.

[Verse 2]
     G               C           D
It's many a man I've known in my day
    Em            G         C          G
Who lived just to labor his young life away
       G                         C            D
Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine
  Em            G            C           G
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine.

[Chorus]
     D                     C           G
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
      D                    C             G
Where danger is double and pleasures are few
          G                        C         D
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
     Em        G           C           G
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.

[Verse 3]
    G                             C             D
The midnight, the morning, or the middle of the day
          Em         G         C      G
It's the same to the miner who labors away
          G             C                   D
Where the demons of the death often come by surprise
    Em          G                C      G
One fall of the slate and you're buried alive.

[Chorus]
     D                     C           G
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
      D                    C             G
Where danger is double and pleasures are few 
          G                        C         D
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
     Em        G           C           G
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.

[Verse 4]
  G                          C          D
I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll
   Em        G           C         G
My body will blacken and turn into coal
           G                       C        D
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
    Em       G       C          G
And pity the miner a-diggin' my bones.

[Chorus]
     D                     C           G
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
      D                    C             G
Where danger is double and pleasures are few
          G                        C         D
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
     Em        G           C           G
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.

[Outro]
     Em        G           C           G
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.
     Em        G           C           G
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines. 
        

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