Dark As A Dungeon Songtext / Lyric

Come all you young fellers 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

Till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal



And it's dark as a dungeon damp as the dew

danger is double and the pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines

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



Well it's many a man that I've known in my day

Who lived just to labor his whole life away

Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard with his wine

A man will have lust for the lure of the mine






And it's dark as a dungeon damp as the dew

danger is double and the pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines

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



The midnight, the morning, or the middle of the day

It's the same to the miner who labors away

Where the demons of the death often come by surprise

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



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 a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine



And pray when I'm dead and my ages shall roll

That my body would blacken and turn into coal

Then I'll 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 a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine