Quotes by Merle Travis
“My father was a coal miner, and I was raised in a coal-mining camp. Music was a way out.”— Merle Travis
“It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew, where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few.”— Merle Travis
“I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine, I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine.”— Merle Travis
“So I'll smoke my cigarette and I'll drink my liquor down, and I'll walk that old long dusty road until I'm in the ground.”— Merle Travis
“Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine, a man will have lust for the lure of the mine.”— Merle Travis
“Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines, it's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.”— Merle Travis