Lyric Dark As A Dungeon

Come and listen you fellows
So young and do fine
And seek not your fortune
In the dark, dreary mines
It will form as a habit
Seep in your soul
Til the blood in your veins
Runs as black as the coal

There s many a man
That I ve known in my day
Who lived just to labor
His whole life away

Like a fiend with his dope
And a drunkard his wine
A man will have lust for
The lure of the mine

It s dark as a dungeon
Damp as the dew
The danger is double
And the pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls
Where the sun never shines
It s dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine

I hope when I m gone
And the ages shall roll
My body will blacken
And turn into coal

Then I ll look out the door
Of my heavenly home
And I ll pity the miners
A-diggin my bones

It s dark as a dungeon
Damp as the dew
The danger is double
And the pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls
Where the sun never shines
It s dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine

Where the rain never falls
Where the sun never shines
It s dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine