Dark As A Dungeon

Come listen you fellers so young and so fine And 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 is as black as the coal It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew Where the danger is double and pleasures are few Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines It's many a man, I've seen in my day Who lives just a laborer his young life away Where the demons of death often come by surprise One fall off a slate and you're burried alive I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll My body will blacken and turn into coal Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home And pity the miner digging my bones It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew Where danger is double and pleasures are few Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine