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 young fellers, so young and so fine And seek not your fortunes way down in the mine It will form like a habit and seep in your soul 'Til the stream of your blood flows as black as the coal

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 is many a man I have seen in my day Who lived just to labor his whole life away Where the demons of death often come by surprise One fall of the slate and you're buried alive Like the fiend with his dope and the drunkard his wine A man will have lust for the lure of the mine

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

I hope when I'm dead and the ages shall roll That my body will blacken and turn into coal I will look from the door of my heavenly home And pity the miner a' diggin' my bones

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 It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine