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