Lyr Req: Dark as a Dungeon (answered)

Subject: Dark as a Dungeon:Coal Mining Song
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 08 Feb 99 - 12:56 PM

My Grandfather was born in Southeastern Kentucky about 1885. There were two songs I can remember him singing, but I have forgotten(or never knew) the lyrics.One was called Dark as a Dungeon, and I remember fragments of it

Gather round children and pay me your mind Seek not your fortune in the depths of the mine

and the refrain

Where the rain never falls, and the sun never shines It's Dark as a Dungeon way down in the mine

Another song concerned Dale Collins(I think that was the name) a cave explorer who was trapped in a cave in Kentucky at the turn of the century, and became a sensation in the newspapers as it took the rescuers nearly a week to get to him. I can't remember a lick of that one.

Subject: RE: Dark as a Dungeon:Coal Mining Song
From:
Date: 08 Feb 99 - 01:05 PM

Click 'back', then put DARKDUNG in the 'Search the digitrad database' box at the upper right of the home page.

Subject: RE: Dark as a Dungeon:Coal Mining Song
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 08 Feb 99 - 01:11 PM

If you enter - Floyd Collins - in the box in the upper righthand corner it will lead you to the song of the trapped spelunker.

Sandy

Subject: RE: Dark as a Dungeon:Coal Mining Song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 08 Feb 99 - 01:14 PM

Hi, EJ - not really a need to click "back" since there's a search box on the upper-right corner of this page and most pages at the 'Cat. If you put dungeon in the search box, you'll find "Dark as a Dungeon," which was written in 1947 by Merle Travis (I'm quite sure the database is incorrect in identifying it as "Dark as THE Dungeon"). If you put cave in the box, you'll find a song about Floyd Collins - is that the song you were wondering about?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Dark as a Dungeon:Coal Mining Song
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 08 Feb 99 - 05:35 PM

Thanks for the help-I tried a search earlier under Dark as a Dungeon w/ no results, maybe too much information. Anyway,followed the instructions and found both....thanks Joe and Sandy...LEJ

Subject: Dark As A Dungeon
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 09:25 PM

Does any one have the lyrics to this song."Dark as a dungeon"It is on the Johnny Cash live from folsom prison album but I'm not sure if he used all of the lyrics and I'm pretty sure he was not the first to record it.I would like the information.Thanks a bunch I got only one reply to my last request for "cold grey walls of a prison" but it was a good one .I got the lyrics that I had been searching for.Lillian

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dark As A Dungeon
From: kendall
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 09:28 PM

It's in the dt

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dark As A Dungeon
From: MMario
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 09:32 PM

type

[dark as a dun*] into the DigiTrad lyrics search box above and then press "go"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dark As A Dungeon
From: SeanM
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 09:34 PM

Yup, it is in the DT here for your edification.

If you're looking for other songs, you can also try checking the supersearch in the upper right corner of the thread. Enter in something in the lyric you're looking for, and it'll bring back the matches.

Good hunting!

M

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dark As A Dungeon
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 09:44 PM

Here's a previous thread too CLICK

Also as the previous thread notes, the DT lists it as THE instead of A Dungeon.....Here's the DT link....... CLICK FOR DT LYRICS

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Dark As A Dungeon
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 09:46 PM

Sorry Sean.....I was reading the previous thread when you posted and I should have checked to see if it had been actually linked! Beat the crap out of me too!!!

Spaw