Dark As A Dungeon

Oh come all you young fellers so young and so fine

Seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine

It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul

Till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal

Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew

Where the danger is double and pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls the sun never shines

It's a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

Well it's many a man that I've seen 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

Where it's dark as a dungeon ....

And pray when I'm dead and my ages shall roll

That my body would blacken and turn into coal

Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home and pity the miner digging my bones

Where it's dark as a dungeon...