Chords with lyrics
Kathy Mattea - Dark As A augmentedA Dungeon
CAPO: 3rd Fret
C majorC FF G+G
Come and listen you fellows, so young and so fine
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And seek not your fortunes in the dark dreary mines
FF G+G
It will form as a habit and seep in your soul
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'Til the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal
CHORUS:
G+G C majorC
Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
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Where danger is double and pleasures are few
FF G+G
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
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It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines
FF G+G
It's a many a man I have known in my day
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Who lived just to labour his whole life away
FF G+G
Like a fiend with his dope, or a drunkard his wine
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A augmentedA man will have lust for the lure of the mines
CHORUS:
G+G C majorC
Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
G+G FF C majorC
Where danger is double and pleasures are few
FF G+G
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
C majorC FF C majorC
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines
INTERLUDE: C majorC FF C majorC
FF G+G
Well, the midnight or the morning or the middle of day
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Is the same to the miner digging away
FF G+G
Where the demons of death often come by surprise
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One fall of the slate and you're buried alive
CHORUS:
G+G C majorC
Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
G+G FF C majorC
Where danger is double and pleasures are few
FF G+G
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
C majorC FF C majorC
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines
FF G+G
Well, I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll
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My body will blacken and turn into coal
FF G+G
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
A minorAm E minorEm FF C majorC
And pity the miner digging my bones
CHORUS:
G+G C majorC
Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
G+G FF C majorC
Where danger is double and pleasures are few
FF G+G
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
C majorC FF C majorC
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines
A minorAm G+G FF C majorC FF F6F6 C majorC