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 listen, you fellers So young and so fine And seek not your fortune In the dark, dreary mine It'll 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 the 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 mine

It's many a man I have known in my day Who live 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 My 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 Digging 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 mine