diff --git a/colors/dracula.vim b/colors/dracula.vim
index 25beee2..53832af 100644
--- a/colors/dracula.vim
+++ b/colors/dracula.vim
@@ -119,3 +119,17 @@ hi cssBraces ctermfg=NONE ctermbg=NONE cterm=NONE guifg=NONE guibg=NONE gui=NONE
 hi TabLineFill  guifg=#333333 guibg=#1e1f29 gui=none
 hi TabLine      guifg=#666666 guibg=#1e1f29 gui=none
 hi TabLineSel   guifg=WHITE guibg=#1e1f29 gui=none
+
+"-------------------
+"
+"cygwin has an annoying behavior where it resets background to light
+"regardless of what is set above, so we force it yet again
+"
+"add these to get cygwin shell working when used to ssh into a centos6 vm
+"this requires your TERM=xterm-256color in the guest vm
+"- one way to do this is to append to /home/vagrant/.bash_profile ala:
+"      TERM=xterm-256color
+"      export $TERM
+
+execute "set background=dark"
+"-------------------