Dark as a Dungeon

Come all you young fellers So young and so fine And seek not your fortune In the dark dreary mine It'll form as a habit And seep in your soul Till the stream of your blood Is as black as the coal Where it's dark as a dungeon And damp as the dew Where the dangers are double And the pleasures are few Where the rain never falls And the sun never shines Lord it's a dark as a dungeon Way down in the mines 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 Or a drunkard his wine A man must have lust For the lure of the mine Where it's dark as a dungeon And damp as the dew Where the dangers are double And the pleasures are few Where the rain never falls And the sun never shines Lord it's a dark as a dungeon Way down in the mines Well I hope when I'm gone All the ages shall roll My body would blacken And turn into coal Then I'll look from the door Of my heavenly home And pity the miner Who are digging my bones Where it's dark as a dungeon And damp as the dew Where the dangers are double And the pleasures are few Where the rain never falls And the sun never shines Lord it's a dark as a dungeon Way down in the mines