Dark As A Dungeon:Big John Khatt and the
Highland Blues Band. 1960.
INTRO:
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#1.
Oh, come all you young fellas so young and so fine,
and seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine.
It ll form as a habit and seep in your soul,
till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal.
CHORUS:
Where it s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew.
Where the danger is double and pleasures are few.
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines..
it s dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.
#2.
Well, it s many a man that I ve seen 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.
CHORUS:
Where it s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew.
Where the danger is double and pleasures are few.
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines..
it s dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.
#3.
And I pray when I m dead, and the ages shall roll..
that my body would blacken and turn into coal.
Then I ll look from the door of my Heavenly home
and pity the miner, digging my bones.
CHORUS:
Where it s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew.
Where the danger is double and pleasures are few.
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines..
it s dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.
OUTRO:
Where it s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew.
Where the danger is double and pleasures are few.
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines..
it s dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.