{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1984715,"song":"Dark As A Dungeon","artist":"Merle Travis","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11443955-dark-as-a-dungeon-chords-by-merle-travis/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1984715?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":83,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nCome listen you fellers so young and fine[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOh seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIt will form as a habit and seep in your soul [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTill the stream of your blood is as black as the coal.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere danger is double and pleasures are few[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere the rain never falls and the sun never shines[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIt's many a man I've known in my day[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWho lived just to labor his young life away[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nLike a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA man will have lust for the lure of the mine.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere danger is double and pleasures are few[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere the rain never falls and the sun never shines[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe midnight, the morning, or the middle of the day[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Em[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's the same to the miner who labors away[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere the demons of the death often come by surprise[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOne fall of the slate and you're buried alive.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere danger is double and pleasures are few [/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere the rain never falls and the sun never shines[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]  [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy body will blacken and turn into coal[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThen I'll look from the door of my heavenly home[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd pity the miner a-diggin' my bones.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere danger is double and pleasures are few[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere the rain never falls and the sun never shines[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]","chords":["G","C","D","Em","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}