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Dark As a Dungeon

Johnny Cash

Country

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Dark as the Dungeon (Live at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, CA - January 1968)

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Johnny Cash

Vocals

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Merle Travis

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Johnny Cash

Associate Producer

Rick Rubin

Producer

David Ferguson

Mixing Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Oh, come all you young fellers so young and so fine

And seek not your fortune in the 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

[Verse 2]

Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew

Danger is double and pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

[Verse 3]

Well, it's many a man that I've known in my day

That would live just to labor his whole life away

Like a fiend with his dope, like a drunkard with his wine

A man will have lust for the lure of the mine

[Verse 4]

And I pray when I'm dead and the ages shall roll

That my body would blacken and turn into coal

Then I'd look from the door of my heavenly home

And pity the miner diggin' my bones

[Verse 5]

Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew

Danger is double and the pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

Written by: Merle Travis

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