Dark As a Dungeon

Come all you young fellers so young and so fine
Seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine
It'll form as a habit it'll sip in your soul
'Til the blood in your veins runs black as the coal

For it's dark as a dungeon
And it's damp as the dew
Where the dangers are double
The pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
The sun never shines
Oh, God, it's dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mines

Oh, it's many a man I've known in my day
Who lived just to labor his whole life away
Like a fiend for his dope
A drunkard his wine
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine

Oh, I hope when I die and the ages do roll
Yes, my body will harden and turn into coal
And I look from the door of my heavenly home
To see a poor miner a digging my bones

For it's dark as a dungeon
Damp as the dew
Where the dangers are double
Pleasures are few
Where that rain never falls
Sun never shines
Oh, God, it's dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mines