Dark as a Dungeon

Come all young fellows so young and so fine
And seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mines
It'll form like a habit and creep in your soul
Til the stream of your lifeblood runs black as the coal

Chorus
It's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
Where the dangers are plenty and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls and the shine never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines

Its many a man I've seen in my day
Who lives just to labor his whole life away
Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine

I hope when I die and the ages shall roll
My body will blacken and turn into coal
I'll look out the door of my heavenly home
And pity the miners digging my bones