Dark as a Dungeon

"Dark as a Dungeon" is a song broadcast on Appalachia Radio in Fallout 76. It is a country ballad about the dangers of coal mining written by Merle Travis in 1946. The version that plays in the game is a cover by Tennessee Ernie Ford, released in 1955.

Lyrics
Come all you 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 stream of your blood is as black as the coal

It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew Where the danger is 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

It's many a man I have known in my day Who lived just to labor his young life away Where the demons of death often come by surprise One fall of the slate and you're buried alive

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 diggin my bones

It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew Where dangers 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