(Merle Travis)
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Come and listen you fellows
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So young and do fine
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And seek not your fortune
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In the dark, dreary mines
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It will form as a habit
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Seep in your soul
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'Til the blood in your veins
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Runs as black as the coal
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There's many a man
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That I've known in my day
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Who lived just to labor
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His whole life away
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Like a fiend with his dope
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And a drunkard his wine
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A man will have lust for
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The lure of the mine
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It's dark as a dungeon
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Damp as the dew
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The danger is double
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And the pleasures are few
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Where the rain never falls
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Where the sun never shines
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It's dark as a dungeon
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Way down in the mine
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I hope when I'm gone
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And the ages shall roll
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My body will blacken
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And turn into coal
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Then I'll look out the door
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Of my heavenly home
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And I'll pity the miners
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A-diggin' my bones
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It's dark as a dungeon
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Damp as the dew
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The danger is double
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And the pleasures are few
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Where the rain never falls
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Where the sun never shines
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It's dark as a dungeon
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Way down in the mine
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Where the rain never falls
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Where the sun never shines
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It's dark as a dungeon
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Way down in the mine
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Dark As A Dungeon
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| Dolly Parton |
