Dark As A Dungeon

Oh come all you fellas 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 'Til the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew Danger is double, pleasures are few Where rain never falls, the sun never shines It's dark as a dungeon, way down in the mine Like a fiend with his dope, a drunkard with his wine A man will have lust for the lure of the mine And I pray when I’m dead my ages shall roll That my body will blacken and turn into coal And I look from the door, of my heavenly home And pity the miner digging my bones Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew Danger is double, pleasures are few Where the rain never falls, and the sun never shines It's dark as a dungeon, way down in the mine