Dark As a Dungeon

Come and listen you fellers
So young and so fine
And seek not your fortune
In the dark, dreary mines
It will 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 the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
And the sun never shines
Well, it's dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine

There's many a man
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

Where it's dark as a dungeon
And damp as the dew
Where the danger is double
And the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
And the sun never shines
Well, 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 from the door
Of my heavenly home
And I'll pity the miner a diggin' my bones

Where it's dark as a dungeon
And damp as the dew
Where the danger is double
And the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
And the sun never shines
Well, it's dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine