Dark As A Dungeon Cifras

Standard tuning, Capo on 4 for the Magnolia sessions version
 
[Intro]
G C D
Em G C G
 
[Verse 1]
     G                     C            D
Come listen you fellers so young and so 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 runs 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
The midnight, the morning, 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 death often come by surprise
    Em          G                C      G
One fall of the slate and you're buried alive
 
[Verse 3]
        G                     C           D
And it's many a man that I've known in my day
         Em            G         C           G
Who have lived just to labor his young life away
       G                        C         D
Like a fiend with his dope or a drunk 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
 
[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
And I hope when I die 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 I'll pity the miner 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
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