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The Hiders- live at the Southgate House 'Music for the Mountains' Benefit 2/13/11.
Dark as a Dungeon is an old song by Merle Travis and Grandpa Jones .

Come listen you fellows, so young and so fine
And seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine
It will form as a habit and seep in your soul
'till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal

It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
where the danger is double and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines...
It's dark as dungeon way down in the mines

It's many a man I've known in my day
who lived just to labor his whole life away
and like a fiend with his dope, a drunk with his wine
a man will have lust for the lure of the mine

One day when I'm gone and the ages shall roll
my body will blacken and turn into coal
And I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
and pity the miner a-diggin' my bones