[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:06.09]It's as dark as a dungeon [00:08.88]Way down in the mine [00:13.19]I never will forget one time [00:14.52]When I was on a little visit down [00:15.98]Home in ebenezer kentucky [00:18.60]I was a-talking to an old man [00:19.98]That had known me ever [00:21.29]Since the day I was born and [00:22.75]An old friend of the family [00:25.16]He says son you don't know how [00:26.50]Lucky you are to have a nice job [00:28.31]Like you've got and don't have [00:29.54]To dig out a living [00:30.56]From under these old hills and hollers [00:33.08]Like me and your pappy used to [00:35.75]When I asked him why he never had left [00:37.65]And tried some other kind of work he says [00:39.65]Now Sir you just won't do that [00:42.40]If ever you get this old [00:43.36]Coal dust in your blood [00:44.71]You're just gonna be a plain [00:46.22]Old coal miner as long as you live [00:49.26]He went on to say it's a habit [00:51.41]Sorta like chewing tobaccer [00:54.86]Come and listen you fellows [00:57.14]So young and so fine [00:59.41]And seek not your fortune [01:02.02]In the dark dreary mines [01:04.44]It will form as a habit [01:06.72]And seep in your soul [01:09.14]Till the stream of your [01:10.94]Blood is as black as the coal [01:14.38]It's dark as a dungeon [01:16.73]And damp as the dew [01:19.24]Where danger is double and [01:21.83]Pleasures are few [01:24.07]Where the rain never falls [01:26.23]And the sun never shines [01:29.06]It's dark as a dungeon [01:31.66]Way down in the mine [01:40.90]It's a many a man [01:43.26]I have seen in my day [01:45.53]Who lived just to labor [01:48.32]His whole life away [01:50.50]Like a fiend with his dope [01:52.92]And a drunkard his wine [01:55.66]A man will have lust for [01:57.95]The lure of the mines [02:00.17]I hope when I'm gone [02:02.59]And the ages shall roll [02:05.53]My body will blacken [02:08.08]And turn into coal [02:10.26]Then I'll look from the door [02:12.53]Of my heavenly home [02:15.16]And pity the miner a [02:18.01]Digging my bones [02:19.95]It's dark as a dungeon [02:22.67]And damp as the dew [02:25.20]Where danger is double [02:27.42]And pleasures are few [02:30.29]Where the rain never falls [02:32.39]And the sun never shines [02:35.60]It's dark as a dungeon way [02:39.18]Down in the mine