Dark as the Dungeon (Folsom Rehearsal) Songtext
von Johnny Cash

Oh, come all you young fellers
So young and so fine
Seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine
It′ll form as a habit and seep in your soul
Until the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal

Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
Danger is double, pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines
It′s a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine


Well, it's many a-man that I've known in my day
That will lift to labour, is all I go way
Like a fiend with his dope, like a drunkard with his wine
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine

And I pray when I′m dead and the ages shall roll
That my body will blacken and turn into coal
Then I′ll look from the door of my heavenly home
And pity the miner digging my bones

Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
Danger is double, pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines
It′s a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine