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Springhouse - Dark as a Dungeon

from Nothing But Stars - 5 songs by Springhouse

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The son and younger brother of coal miners, Merle Travis wrote Dark as a Dungeon from experience.
Springhouse's arrangement varies slightly in chord structure and includes guitars, accordion, pedal steel, and of course vocals. Our recording is licensed.

lyrics

Come and listen, you fellows so young and so fine
And seek not your fortune in the dark, dreary mines
It will form as a habit, seep in your soul
'Til the blood in your veins runs black as the coal.

There's many a man that I've known in my day
Who'll live just to labor his whole life away
Like a fiend with his dope, or a drunkard his wine
A man will have lust for the lure of the mines.

It's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
Where the danger is double and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls, where the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.

The morning, the evening or the middle of the day
Is the same to the miner laboring away.
Where the demons of that death often come by surprise
One fall of the slate and you're buried alive.

Well, I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll
My body will blacken and turn into coal.
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
And I'll pity the miners digging my bones.

credits

from Nothing But Stars - 5 songs, track released July 26, 2014
pedal steel guitar: David Phillips
Vocals, accordion: Jane Selkye
Guitar, acoustic bass, vocals: Chris Kee

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Springhouse California

Music from the Americana Borderlands - from artsong to the roadhouse and places in between:
Chris Kee and Jane Selkye met in the San Francisco band Me Jane, and have played with David Phillips in various
groups for the last twenty years. ... more

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