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Dark as a Dungeon lyrics

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

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

Come on, you young fellas
So young and so fine
And seek not your fortune

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