Land - Dark as a dungeon

For our beloved Eleo...
« Dark as a dungeon » is a very popular, traditionnal american folk ballad, from the 20th century, written by Merle Travis (1946), telling the hard working life of a coal miner.
Kriss : female vocals, laud, eggs, illustration.
Jan : guitars, bass, piano, cajon, male vocals.
Recorded in December, 2020.
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Lyrics :
Come listen you fellers so young and fine ;
Oh seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine.
It will form as a habit and seep in your soul,
Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal.
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,
Where danger is double and pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines…
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.
It's many a man I've known in my day
Who lived just to labor his young life away.
Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine,
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine.
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,
Where danger is double and pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines…
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.
The midnight, the morning, or the middle of the day,
It's the same to the miner who labors away.
Where the demons of the death often come by surprise ;
One fall of the slate and you're buried alive.
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,
Where danger is double and pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines…
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.
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.
It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,
Where danger is double and pleasures are few,
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines…
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.

[@lapoireverte]

J'aime beaucoup !

[@landmusictrad9593]

Merci !

[@oricdragorson793]

J'adore !

[@landmusictrad9593]

Merci !

[@flymyfefe]

😱❤️❤️❤️ J'aime beaucoup trop

[@landmusictrad9593]

Merci ! Je l'avais tellement en tête à cause de Sheldon, dans The Big Bang Theory... Il fallait qu'elle sorte de ma tête !

[@flymyfefe]

@@landmusictrad9593 Sheldon ❤️🎶

[@linneras7426]

❤️

[@Kevinsylvainmestre]

Sympa :)

[@landmusictrad9593]

Merci ! (Pour le commentaire et pour avoir pris le temps d'en faire un !)

[@Kevinsylvainmestre]

@@landmusictrad9593 De rien :) V

[@leeloofinaud]

Super sympa ! C'est celle que je préfère, l'air et la technique vocale m'interpelle plus !

[@landmusictrad9593]

Merci ! Ca nous fait bien plaisir ! C'est vrai qu'elle a quelque chose de puissant cette chanson de mineurs !

[@flymyfefe]

J'aime beaucoup beaucoup beaucoup

[@landmusictrad9593]

Merci ! Ce chant nous a beaucoup touchés : une vie pas facile que celle des mineurs de charbon... Hésite pas à partager et à t'abonner (si ce n'est pas fait héhé) ! ^^