Click here to return to the Home page... Click here to go to the advanced ukulelerocksMORE! page... Click here to go to the nursery rhyme ukulelerocksRHYMES! page... Click here to find out about the Face Book Group... Click here to follow us on Twitter... Title Bar...

Download
Lesson Sheet
 

 

Chords needed...

'Dark as a Dungeon' 

       C                                          F                        G7

Oh come all you fellas so young and so fine

         C                         F                        G7                 C

And seek not your fortune way down in the mine

      C                               F                      G7

It'll form a habit and seep in your soul

              C                              F                      G7                     C 

Till the streams of your blood run as black as the coal


              G7                                            F                          C

For it's dark as a dungeon way down past the dew
             
   G7                                       F                    C
Where the dangers are many and the pleasures are few
                  C                                   F              G7
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
         
C              F                    G7              C
It's as dark as a dungeon way down in the mine


  C                                           F              G7
I hope when I'm dead and the ages shall roll
     C             F                 G7          C
My body will blacken and turn into coal
      C                                     F              G7
As I look from the door of my heavenly home
    C                   F                 G7             C
I'll pity the poor miner who's digging me bones

              G7                                            F                          C

For it's dark as a dungeon way down past the dew
             
   G7                                       F                    C
Where the dangers are many and the pleasures are few
                  C                                   F              G7
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
         
C              F                    G7              C
It's as dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
   

Group of coalminers...Working the ventilation doors...Coalmining...

  • This is an arrangement based on the Merle Travis song.

  • This arrangement is from the one taught to Mr C. when he was a young man (!) listening to Folk Music in The Clickham Inn, Cumbria.

  • A long time ago this was the only way that folk music was learnt and passed around.


The Clickham Inn, Cumbria



My friends in Year 3 at St Mary Magdalenes C of E School, West Bromwich worked VERY hard to learn this song! Why not take a listen to their version?
(March 2014)

 

 

   © J. Cockshott 2015 : Terms and Conditions/a>