Dark As A Dungeon

Come all you young fellers so young and so fine
Seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mines
It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul
Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal

It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where danger is double pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

It's many a man I've seen in my day
Who live 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 mines

I hope when I'm gone and my ages shall roll
My body will blacken and turn into coal
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
And pity the miner a-digging my bones

Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where danger is double and pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine