Merle Travis

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Come and [C]listen you fellows, so [F]young and so [G]fine,
And [C]seek not your fortune in the [F]dark, dreary [C]mines.
It will [C]form as an habit and [F]seep in your [G]soul,
'Till the [C]stream of your blood is as [F]black as the [C]coal.

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It's [G]dark as a dungeon and [F]damp as the [C]dew,
Where [G]danger is double and [F]pleasures are [C]few,
Where the [C]rain never falls and the [F]sun never [G]shines
It's [C]dark as a dungeon way [F]down in the [C]mine.

It's a-many a man I have seen in my day,
Who lived just to labor his whole life away.
Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine,
A man will have lust for the lure of the mines.

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

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 pity the miner a-diggin' my bones.

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