Dark As A Dungeon chords by Tennessee Ernie Ford

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:

E A B E

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

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

Post-Chorus:

E A B E

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

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