Chords for Johnny Cash - Dark as a Dungeon
Tempo:
100.85 bpm
Chords used:
Ab
Eb
Bb
G
F
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Gb] The coal miner [F] spends long [Bbm] hours rubbing [F] elbows with sudden [Gb] death.
Destruction can come in a [Db] dozen different [Ebm] ways.
A fall of [Bbm] slate can bury him alive or enclose him in a [F] dark airless tomb.
Get the right mixture of [Bb] coal dust and air,
[G] strike a match, and you're in [Cm] an inferno, an underground explosion.
[Ab] Newspapers will scream,
[G]
explosion.
[Cm] Then there's the poisonous [Ab] gases like
[G] choked damp,
[Cm]
heavier than air and lurking in low places to [Fm] suffocate the man who [G] fails to detect it.
There's white damp, an
[G] explosive gas, [Ab] but the man who breathes it doesn't [C] live to worry [F] about fire.
It's that [Fm] deadly.
[Bb] And then there's black [Eb] damp.
It makes you calm and sleepy.
But the miner who goes to sleep in black damp never wakes up.
So come all you young fellers,
[Eb]
so [Ab] young and so fine,
[Bb]
and seek not your fortune
[Abm] in a [Ab] dark [Eb] dreary mind.
It'll form [Bbm] as a habit and
[Ab]
seep in [Bb] your soul
[Eb] till the stream of your blood
[Ab] runs as black [Eb] as the coal.
[Bb] Where it's dark as the dungeon,
[Ab] damp [Eb] as the dew.
[Bb] Where
danger is double,
[Ab] pleasures [Eb] are few.
Where the rain never falls,
[Ab] the sun [Bb] never shines.
[Eb] It's dark as the dungeon,
[Ab] way down [Eb] in the mine.
There's many a man
[Ab]
I've known in [Bb] my day
[Eb] that would live
just to labor
[Ab]
his whole [Eb] life away.
Like a fiend
with his dope,
[Ab] like a drunkard [Bb] with his wine,
[Eb] a man will have lust
[Ab] for the lure [Eb] of the mine.
And I pray
when I'm dead [Ab] and the ages [Bb] shall roll
[Eb] that my body will blacken and
[Ab]
turn [Eb] into coal.
Then I'll look from [G] the door [Fm] of my heavenly [Bb] home.
[Eb] Lord, how pity that miner
[Ab] that's digging [Eb] my bone.
Where [Bb] it's dark
as the dungeon,
[Ab] where it's damp as [Eb] the dew.
[Bb] Where
dangers are double,
[Ab]
pleasures are [Eb] few.
Where the rain
never falls,
the [Ab]
sun never [Bb] shines.
Lord, [Eb] it's dark as the dungeon,
[Ab] way down in the mine.
[N]
Destruction can come in a [Db] dozen different [Ebm] ways.
A fall of [Bbm] slate can bury him alive or enclose him in a [F] dark airless tomb.
Get the right mixture of [Bb] coal dust and air,
[G] strike a match, and you're in [Cm] an inferno, an underground explosion.
[Ab] Newspapers will scream,
[G]
explosion.
[Cm] Then there's the poisonous [Ab] gases like
[G] choked damp,
[Cm]
heavier than air and lurking in low places to [Fm] suffocate the man who [G] fails to detect it.
There's white damp, an
[G] explosive gas, [Ab] but the man who breathes it doesn't [C] live to worry [F] about fire.
It's that [Fm] deadly.
[Bb] And then there's black [Eb] damp.
It makes you calm and sleepy.
But the miner who goes to sleep in black damp never wakes up.
So come all you young fellers,
[Eb]
so [Ab] young and so fine,
[Bb]
and seek not your fortune
[Abm] in a [Ab] dark [Eb] dreary mind.
It'll form [Bbm] as a habit and
[Ab]
seep in [Bb] your soul
[Eb] till the stream of your blood
[Ab] runs as black [Eb] as the coal.
[Bb] Where it's dark as the dungeon,
[Ab] damp [Eb] as the dew.
[Bb] Where
danger is double,
[Ab] pleasures [Eb] are few.
Where the rain never falls,
[Ab] the sun [Bb] never shines.
[Eb] It's dark as the dungeon,
[Ab] way down [Eb] in the mine.
There's many a man
[Ab]
I've known in [Bb] my day
[Eb] that would live
just to labor
[Ab]
his whole [Eb] life away.
Like a fiend
with his dope,
[Ab] like a drunkard [Bb] with his wine,
[Eb] a man will have lust
[Ab] for the lure [Eb] of the mine.
And I pray
when I'm dead [Ab] and the ages [Bb] shall roll
[Eb] that my body will blacken and
[Ab]
turn [Eb] into coal.
Then I'll look from [G] the door [Fm] of my heavenly [Bb] home.
[Eb] Lord, how pity that miner
[Ab] that's digging [Eb] my bone.
Where [Bb] it's dark
as the dungeon,
[Ab] where it's damp as [Eb] the dew.
[Bb] Where
dangers are double,
[Ab]
pleasures are [Eb] few.
Where the rain
never falls,
the [Ab]
sun never [Bb] shines.
Lord, [Eb] it's dark as the dungeon,
[Ab] way down in the mine.
[N]
Key:
Ab
Eb
Bb
G
F
Ab
Eb
Bb
_ _ [Gb] The coal miner [F] spends long [Bbm] hours rubbing [F] elbows with sudden [Gb] death.
_ Destruction can come in a [Db] dozen different [Ebm] ways.
A fall of [Bbm] slate can bury him alive or enclose him in a [F] dark airless tomb.
Get the right mixture of [Bb] coal dust and air,
_ [G] strike a match, _ and you're in [Cm] an inferno, an underground explosion.
[Ab] Newspapers will scream,
_ [G]
explosion.
[Cm] Then there's the poisonous [Ab] gases like
[G] choked damp,
_ _ [Cm]
heavier than air and lurking in low places to [Fm] suffocate the man who [G] fails to detect it.
There's white damp, an
[G] explosive gas, [Ab] but the man who breathes it doesn't [C] live to worry [F] about fire.
It's that [Fm] deadly.
_ [Bb] And then there's black [Eb] damp.
It makes you calm and sleepy.
But the miner who goes to sleep in black damp never wakes up. _ _ _
So come all you young fellers,
[Eb] _
so [Ab] young and so fine,
_ [Bb] _
_ and seek not your fortune
_ [Abm] in a [Ab] dark [Eb] dreary mind.
_ _ _ It'll form [Bbm] as a habit and
_ [Ab]
seep in [Bb] your soul
[Eb] till the stream of your blood
[Ab] runs as black [Eb] as the coal. _ _
_ [Bb] Where it's dark as the dungeon,
_ [Ab] _ damp [Eb] as the dew.
[Bb] Where
_ danger is double,
_ _ [Ab] pleasures [Eb] are few.
Where the rain never falls,
[Ab] the sun [Bb] never shines.
_ [Eb] It's dark as the dungeon,
[Ab] way down [Eb] in the mine. _ _ _ _
There's many a man
[Ab]
I've known in [Bb] my day
[Eb] that would live
just to labor
_ [Ab]
his whole [Eb] life away. _ _
_ Like a fiend
with his dope,
[Ab] like a drunkard [Bb] with his wine,
[Eb] a man will have lust
[Ab] for the lure [Eb] of the mine.
_ _ _ And I pray
when I'm dead [Ab] and the ages [Bb] shall roll
[Eb] that my body will blacken and
[Ab]
turn [Eb] into coal. _ _
_ Then I'll look from [G] the door [Fm] of my heavenly [Bb] home.
_ [Eb] Lord, how pity that miner
_ [Ab] that's digging [Eb] my bone.
_ _ Where [Bb] it's dark
as the dungeon,
[Ab] where it's damp as [Eb] the dew.
[Bb] Where
dangers are double,
_ [Ab]
pleasures are [Eb] few.
Where the rain
never falls,
the [Ab]
sun never [Bb] shines.
Lord, [Eb] it's dark as the dungeon,
[Ab] way down in the mine. _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _
_ Destruction can come in a [Db] dozen different [Ebm] ways.
A fall of [Bbm] slate can bury him alive or enclose him in a [F] dark airless tomb.
Get the right mixture of [Bb] coal dust and air,
_ [G] strike a match, _ and you're in [Cm] an inferno, an underground explosion.
[Ab] Newspapers will scream,
_ [G]
explosion.
[Cm] Then there's the poisonous [Ab] gases like
[G] choked damp,
_ _ [Cm]
heavier than air and lurking in low places to [Fm] suffocate the man who [G] fails to detect it.
There's white damp, an
[G] explosive gas, [Ab] but the man who breathes it doesn't [C] live to worry [F] about fire.
It's that [Fm] deadly.
_ [Bb] And then there's black [Eb] damp.
It makes you calm and sleepy.
But the miner who goes to sleep in black damp never wakes up. _ _ _
So come all you young fellers,
[Eb] _
so [Ab] young and so fine,
_ [Bb] _
_ and seek not your fortune
_ [Abm] in a [Ab] dark [Eb] dreary mind.
_ _ _ It'll form [Bbm] as a habit and
_ [Ab]
seep in [Bb] your soul
[Eb] till the stream of your blood
[Ab] runs as black [Eb] as the coal. _ _
_ [Bb] Where it's dark as the dungeon,
_ [Ab] _ damp [Eb] as the dew.
[Bb] Where
_ danger is double,
_ _ [Ab] pleasures [Eb] are few.
Where the rain never falls,
[Ab] the sun [Bb] never shines.
_ [Eb] It's dark as the dungeon,
[Ab] way down [Eb] in the mine. _ _ _ _
There's many a man
[Ab]
I've known in [Bb] my day
[Eb] that would live
just to labor
_ [Ab]
his whole [Eb] life away. _ _
_ Like a fiend
with his dope,
[Ab] like a drunkard [Bb] with his wine,
[Eb] a man will have lust
[Ab] for the lure [Eb] of the mine.
_ _ _ And I pray
when I'm dead [Ab] and the ages [Bb] shall roll
[Eb] that my body will blacken and
[Ab]
turn [Eb] into coal. _ _
_ Then I'll look from [G] the door [Fm] of my heavenly [Bb] home.
_ [Eb] Lord, how pity that miner
_ [Ab] that's digging [Eb] my bone.
_ _ Where [Bb] it's dark
as the dungeon,
[Ab] where it's damp as [Eb] the dew.
[Bb] Where
dangers are double,
_ [Ab]
pleasures are [Eb] few.
Where the rain
never falls,
the [Ab]
sun never [Bb] shines.
Lord, [Eb] it's dark as the dungeon,
[Ab] way down in the mine. _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _