Title: Dark As A Dungeon
Artist: Bob Dylan
Album: Hard To Find Volume 7 (Track #19)
Duration: 06:00
Label: Sony Music Entertainment
Come all you young fellers so young and so fine
And seek not your fortune in the dark, dreary mine
It will form as a habit and seep in your soul
'Til the blood of your veins runs as black as the coal.
Where it's dark as the dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the dangers are many and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as the dungeon way down in the mine.
It's many a man I have seen in my day
Who lived just to labor his whole life away
Like a fiend with his dope or a drunkard his wine
A man must have lust for the lure of the mine.
I hope when I'm gone and the ages do roll
My body will blacken and form into coal
Then I'll look down from the door of my Heavenly home
And pity the miner a-digging my bones.
The midnight, the morning, the breaking of day
Are the same to the miner who labors away.
Where the demons of death often come by surprise,
One slip of the slate and you're buried alive.
Tracks:
(1) The Lonesome River (w /Ralph Stanley)
(2) Chimes Of Freedom (w /Joan Osborne)
(3) Train Of Love
(4) I'm Not Supposed To Care
(5) Newry Highwayman
(6) The Times We've Known
(7) The White Dove
(8) Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie
(9) Handy Dandy
(10)TV-Talking Song
(11)My Blue Eyed Jane
(12)Hallelujah I'm Ready To Go
(13)Be Not A Stranger
(14)Long Black Veil
(15)Viola Lee Blues
(16)Rock Of Ages
(17)Down Along The Cove
(18)I Am The Man Thomas
(19)Dark As A Dungeon
(20)Pass Me Not Oh Gentle Savior
source:
(1) Clinch Mountain Country, Ralph Stanley & Friends
(2) The Sixties TV soundtrack album
(3) Johnny Cash Tribute (Broadcast April 6, 1999)
(4) Pond Of Anaheim, Anaheim, CA May 23, 1998
(5) Belfast, Ireland June 19, 1998
(6) Madison Square Garden, NY, NY Nov.1, 1998
(7) Irving Plaza, NY, NY December 8, 1997
(8) El Rey Theater, LA, CA. December 19, 1997
(9) Under The Red Sky sessions; January 6, 1990
(10) Under The Red Sky sessions; March 1990
(11) Ardent Studios, Memphis, TN May 1994
(12) The Gorge, George, WA. June 13, 1999
(13) VA Memorial Aud. Columbus, OH. Nov. 7, 1997
(14) Capitol Music Hall, Wheeling, WV. April 28, 1997
(15) Kosei Nenkin Kaikan, Sapporo, Japan Feb. 24, 1997
(16) Pensacola, FL. February 2, 1999
(17) EMU Ballroom, Eugene, OR. June 14, 1999
(18) Nashville, TN September 1999
(19) Mercury Lounge, Melbourne, Australia Aug. 19, 1998
(20) Mullins Center, Amherst, MA. February 24, 1999