Dark as a Dungeon

[Verse 1]

Come all you young feller's, so young and so fine

And seek not your fortunes way down in the mine

It will form like a habit and seep in your soul

Until the stream of your blood flows as black as the coal

[Chorus]

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

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines

[Verse 2]

There is many a man I have seen in my day

Who lived just to labour his whole life away

Like the fiend with his dope and the drunkard his wine

A man will have lust for the lure of the mine

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]

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

That my body will blacken and turn into coal

I will look from the door of my heavenly home

And pity the miner a' digging my bones

[Chorus]

[Outro]

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine