Dark As A Dungeon chords by Tennessee Ernie Ford

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:

E MajorE A augmentedA BB E MajorE

Verse:
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Come listen you fellers, so young and so fine
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And seek not your fortune, in the dark, dreary mines
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It’ll form as a habit, and seep in your soul
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’Till the stream of your blood, is as black as the coal

Chorus:
BB              A augmentedA      E MajorE
It’s dark as a dungeon, and damp as the dew
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Where the danger is double, and pleasures are few
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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

Post-Chorus:

E MajorE A augmentedA BB E MajorE

Verse:
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It’s many a man, I have known in my day
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Who live just to labor, his young life away
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Where the demons of death often come by surprise
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One fall of the slate, and you’re buried alive
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I hope when I’m gone, and the ages shall roll
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My body will blacken, and turn into coal
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Then I look from the door, of my heavenly home
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And pity the miner diggin’ my bone

Chorus:
BB              A augmentedA      E MajorE
It’s dark as a dungeon, and damp as the dew
BB                  A augmentedA     E MajorE
Where the danger is double, and pleasures are few
E MajorE                  A augmentedA     BB
Where the rain never falls, and the sun never shines
E MajorE             A augmentedA      E MajorE
It’s dark as a dungeon, way down in the mines