Chords for JACKIE DeSHANNON - Dark As A Dungeon

A couple of months ago one of our guests was supposed to have on the show became ill so
We put in a phone call to Jackie D.
Shannon and she was on the next plane to Nashville
And she told this place that _ nobody's sick this time and we're sure glad to have her back.
Welcome Hazel Kentucky's Jackie D.
Shannon
[Eb] _
_ [Bbm] Thank you, [Eb] John _
_ _ As a child in Kentucky, [Bb] I used to watch the men go down [Eb] into the mines _ day after [Bb] day and _ _ _
Sometimes some of the men would never [Dm] return
_ [Bb] _ [Cm] But these are the kind of men [Bb] who [A] will continue to [G] go down into the [Gm] mines
No matter what the hazards are
_ [Bb] _ _
because coal is their life [Eb] and _
_ Life is their [Ab] coal _
[Dm] _ And I [D] don't think there's any better way to say it than this song.
It was written by Kentucky's very [Ab] own Merle Travis _
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_ _ _ _ [Eb] _
Come listen
_ You _ _ fellas
So [Ab] _
young and so [Bb] _
fine _ and [Eb]
see
_ Your _ fortune _ in [Ab] the dark
_ _ _ [Eb] _
Remind _ _ _ _ _
_ _ It'll form _ as a _ _ habit _ [Ab] and see _
_ Your [Bb] _ soul
to the [Eb] _ stream
of your blood _ _
Is [Ab] as black _ as [Cm] the coal _
_ [Bb] It's dark _
as a dungeon _
_ [Ab] And damp _ [Eb] as the dew _
[Bb] Where the danger is
Double _ _ and [Ab] the _ pleasures _ [Eb] of fear _ _ _
Where the rain never
_ _ [Eb] Falls _ and [Ab] the sun never _
_ [Bb] shines _ _ _
[Eb] It's dark _
As a dungeon _ _
[Ab] Way down _ in [Eb] the mine _ _
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It's many _ _
Man, _ _ [Eb] _
I [Ab] have known in [Bb] my day _ _
[Eb] Who lived _ just to labor _ _ [Ab] his young _ _ life [Eb] away _ _ _
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Like a fiend with _ his dope _ and [Ab] a drunkard _ _
[Bb] with his wine _ _
[Eb] A man _ will have lust _
for [Ab] the lure _ of [Eb] the mine _ _
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I hope when _ I'm gone _
And [Ab] the ages _ _
[Bb] shall rob _
my [Eb] _ body _ _
We'll blacken _ _ [Ab] and turn _ _ [Eb] into gold _ _
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Then I'll look from _ _
the door _ of
[Ab] my _ heavenly _
_ [Bb] home
_ And [Eb] I'll pity _ _
the _ miner _ _
[Ab] A dick in my [Eb] _ bones _
Oh, [Bb] it's dark _ as a _ dungeon _
[Ab] And damp as [Eb] the dew _
Oh, [Bb] the _ dangers _ are double _ _
[Ab] Lord, the pleasures _ _ [Eb] of fear _ _
And the rain _ never _ falls
[Eb] _ _
[Ab] And the sun _ never [Bb] _ _ shines _
[Eb] Cause it's dark _
As a dungeon _
_ [Ab] Way down in [Eb] the mine _
_ It's dark _ _ as a dungeon
_ _ Way [Ab] _ _
down in _ _ _ [Bb] the _ [Eb] _ mine
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