Dark As A Dungeon Chords
by Johnny Cash71,716 views, added to favorites 1,002 times
Difficulty: | beginner |
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Tuning: | E A D G B E |
Capo: | no capo |
Author iwalktheline24 [a] 190. 5 contributors total, last edit on Sep 2, 2021
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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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how does one sort out chords by ear when they can't even get the lyrics right?
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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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