Dark As A Dungeon Chords

by Johnny Cash
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Difficulty: beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: no capo
Author iwalktheline24 [a] 190.
5 contributors total, last edit on Sep 2, 2021

Chords

E
A
B

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[Intro]
E
 
[Verse 1]
         E                         A             B
Oh, come all you young fellers, so young and so fine
    E                            A           E
And seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine
      E                   A             B
It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul
         E                            A             E
Till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal
 
 
[Chorus]
           B                  A           E
Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
B                    A              E
Danger is double and pleasures are few
          E                     A          B
Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines
     E                     A           E
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
 
 
[Verse 2]
           E                    A            B
Well, it's many a man that I've known in my day
           E                      A           E
That would live just to labor his whole life away
       E                           A                  B
Like a fiend with his dope, like a drunkard with his wine
  E                          A           E
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine
 
 
[Verse 3]
      E                          A           B
And I pray when I'm dead and the ages shall roll
        E                      A          E
That my body would blacken and turn into coal
         E                        A         B
Then I'd look from the door of my heavenly home
    E              A          E
And pity the miner digging my bones
 
 
[Chorus]
           B                  A           E
Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
B                        A              E
Danger is double and the pleasures are few
          E                     A          B
Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines
     E                     A           E
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
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I thought it sounded good too. Then I tried playing with the CD, but it didn't sound right. I tried using the capo and playing in the same key to play the higher notes the guitar seems to be playing. (E-A-B --> capo2 is D-G-A --> capo 4 is A-D-E...) Some of the tabs here of Johnny Cash tunes are off by a half note (sometimes he played them more than one way --> I Walk the Line was played with and without a capo at 1). I think this was played with Capo 1 D-G-A, a half step lower than this tab... of course you can play it in any key suitable to you. Nice tab.
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masonjukes
how does one sort out chords by ear when they can't even get the lyrics right?
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hjlittlefield
Lyrics are a bit off. >Should read, "in the dark dreary mine" not "mind" >"and a drunkard his wine" not "wife"
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