Biography:
Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician born in Rosewood, Kentucky. His lyrics often discussed the exploitation of coal miners. Some of the songs he wrote or performed include: "Sixteen Tons", "Dark as a Dungeon", "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed", and "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette"; however, it is his masterful guitar playing that he is best known for today.
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[Verse 1]
G G C D
Come listen you fellers so young and 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 is 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
It's many a man I've known in my day
Em G C G
Who lived just to labor his young life away
G C D
Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard 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.
[Verse 3]
G C D
The midnight, the morning, or 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 the death often come by surprise
Em G C G
One fall of the slate and you're buried alive.
[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
I hope when I'm gone 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 pity the miner a-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.
[Outro]
Em G C G
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.
Em G C G
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.
G G C D
Come listen you fellers so young and 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 is 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
It's many a man I've known in my day
Em G C G
Who lived just to labor his young life away
G C D
Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard 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.
[Verse 3]
G C D
The midnight, the morning, or 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 the death often come by surprise
Em G C G
One fall of the slate and you're buried alive.
[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
I hope when I'm gone 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 pity the miner a-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.
[Outro]
Em G C G
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.
Em G C G
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.
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