Dark As A Dungeon

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Come and listen you fellows, so 
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young and so fine
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And seek not your fortunes in the 
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dark dreary mines
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It will form as a habit and seep in
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 your soul
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'Til the stream of your blood runs 
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as black as the coal


CHORUS:
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Where it's dark as a dungeon and 
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damp as the dew
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Where danger is double and 
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pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the 
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sun never shines
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It's dark as a dungeon way down in
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 the mines


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It's a many a man I have known in 
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my day
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Who lived just to labour his whole
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 life away
Like a fiend with his dope, or a 
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drunkard his wine
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A man will have lust for the lure 
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of the mines


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CHORUS:
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Where it's dark as a dungeon and 
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damp as the dew
      G                    F      
Where danger is double and 
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pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the 
F         G
sun never shines
     C                     F      
It's dark as a dungeon way down in
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 the mines


INTERLUDE: C    F  C


Well, the midnight or the morning or
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 the middle of day
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Is the same to the miner digging 
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away
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Where the demons of death often 
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come by surprise
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One fall of the slate and you're 
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buried alive


CHORUS:
           G                    
Where it's dark as a dungeon and 
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damp as the dew
      G                    F      
Where danger is double and 
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pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the 
F         G
sun never shines
     C                     F      
It's dark as a dungeon way down in
     C
 the mines


Well, I hope when I'm gone and the 
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ages shall roll
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My body will blacken and turn into 
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coal
Then I'll look from the door of my 
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heavenly home
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And pity the miner digging my bones


CHORUS:
           G                    
Where it's dark as a dungeon and 
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damp as the dew
      G                    F      
Where danger is double and 
       C
pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the 
F         G
sun never shines
     C                     F      
It's dark as a dungeon way down in
     C
 the mines
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Oh, it's dark as a dungeon way 
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down in the mines