Dark As A Dungeon ¹

Merle Travis

Rolling Thunder Revue 1975 (October-December 1975) 
    S.I.R. rehearsals, New York - 19.oct.1975  
    Memorial Auditorium, Worcester MA - 19.nov.1975  
    Harvard Square Theater, Cambridge MA - 20.nov.1975  
    Boston Music Hall, Boston MA - 21.nov.1975 evening  
    Forum de Montréal, Montréal QU - 4.dec.1975  
    Madison Square Garden, NYC ''Night of the Hurricane'' - 8.dec.1975  

Joan Baez, Montréal: "Une chanson pour tous les travailleurs du monde"

Come [gather round/ all you young] fellows so young and so fine
And seek not your fortune way down in mine
It will form [as/like] a habit and seep in your soul
'Til the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal.

Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the dangers are double and the 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 many a man i have seen in my day
Who lived just to labor his whole life away
Like a fiend with his dope or a drunkard his wine
A man [will/must] have lust for the lure of the mine.

Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.

Now i hope when I'm gone and the ages [will/do] roll
My body will [harden/blacken] and turn into coal
Then i'll look from the door of my heavenly home
And pity the miner diggin' my bones.

Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon down in the mine
Well it's dark as a dungeon down in the mine.