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Artist/Band: Dolly Parton
Lyrics for Song: Dark as a Dungeon
Lyrics for Album: 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs [1980]



(Merle Travis)



Come and listen you fellows so young and do fine

And seek not your fortune in the dark, dreary mine

It will form as a habit seep in your soul

'Til the blood in your veins runs as black as the coal.



There's many a man that I've known in my day

Who lived just to labor his whole life away

Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine

A man will have lust for the lure of the mine.



It's dark as a dungeon damp as the dew

The danger is double and the pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls, where the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.



I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll

My body will blacken and turn into coal

Then I'll look out the door of my heavenly home

And I'll pity the miners a-diggin' my bones.



It's dark as a dungeon damp as the dew

The danger is double and the pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls, where the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.



Where the rain never falls, where the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine...


Album Lyrics: 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs [1980]


Dolly Parton
"9 to 5 and Odd Jobs [1980]"


1. Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
2. Sing For the Common Man
3. Dark as a Dungeon
4. Poor Folks Town