Dark As a Dungeon

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Come listen you fellows 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 'Til the stream of your blood is as black as the coal [Chorus] It's as 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 mine [Verse 2] There's many a man I've seen in my day Who live just to labor his whole lifе away Like a fiend for his dope and a drunkard his winе A man will have lust for the lure of the mine [Chorus] It's as 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 mine [Instrumental Break] [Verse 3] Well, I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll My body will blacken and turn into coal I'll look from that door of that heavenly home And pity the miner diggin' my bones [Chorus] It's as 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 mine