Dark as a Dungeon

[Verse 1]

Come all you young fellers, so young and so fine

And seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine

It'll form like a habit and seep to your soul

'Til the stream of your blood flows black as the coal

[Chorus]

It's dark as the dungeons 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

It's dark as the dungeons way down in the mines

[Verse 2]

There's many a man I have 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 mine

[Chorus]

It's dark as the 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

It's dark as the dungeons way down in the mines

[Verse 3]

Come midnight or morning, or middle of day

It's the same to the miner who labors away

For the demons of death often come by surprise

One fall of the slate, and you're buried alive

[Chorus]

For it's dark as the dungeon and damp as the dew

Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls the sun never shines

It's dark as the dungeons way down in the mines

[Verse 4]

I hope when I'm dead and the ages shall roll

My body will blacken and turn into coal

I'll look from the door of my heavenly home

And pity the miners who're digging my bones

[Chorus]

It's dark as the dungeons and damp as the dew

Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few

And the rain never falls, and the sun never shines

As dark as the dungeons way down in the mines