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Track: Dark As A Dungeon
Artist: Robert Earl Keen
Album: Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions (Deluxe Edition)

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Name: Robert Earl Keen
Spotify Genres: texas country, red dirt, alt country, outlaw country, americana
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American Texas country music and folk guitarist and singer / songwriter, born January 11, 1956 in Houston, Texas.

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Release: Robert Earl Keen - Happy Prisoner (The Bluegrass Sessions)
Year: 2015
Genres: Folk, World, & Country
Styles: Bluegrass, Country

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LYRICS

Come and listen, young fellers, so young and so fine
And seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mines
It will form as a habit and seep in your soul
'Til the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal
Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines

There's many a man who I've known 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 will have lust for the lure of the mines

Well 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 that's digging my bones