Dark as a Dungeon

Come on, you young fellas

So young and so fine

And seek not your fortune

In the dark, dreary mines

It'll form as a habit

Seep in your soul

Till the blood of your veins runs

As black as the coal

It's dark as a dungeon

Damp as the dew

Where the dangers are many

The pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls

And the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon

Way down in the mine

It's many a man

I've seen in my day

Who lived just a labour

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

It's dark as a dungeon

Damp as the dew

Where the dangers are many

The pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls

And the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon

Way down in the mine

Well, I hope when I'm gone

And the ages do roll

My body will blacken

And form into coal

I'll look down from the door

Of my heavenly home

And pity the miners

A diggin' my bones

It's dark as a dungeon

Damp as the dew

Where the dangers are many

The pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls

And the sun never shines

It's dark as a dungeon

Way down in the mine

It's dark as a dungeon

Way down in the mine