Dark as a Dungeon

Come and listen, you fellows
 So young and so fine
 And seek not your fortune
 In the dark, dreary mines
 It will form as a habit
 Seep in your soul
 'Til the blood in your veins
 Runs as black as the coal
 There'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 his wine
 A man will have lust for
 The lure of the mine
 It's dark as a dungeon
 Damp as the dew
 The danger is double
 And the pleasures are few
 Where the rain never falls
 Where the sun never shines
 It's dark as a dungeon
 Way down in the mine
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 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 I'll pity the miners
 A-digging my bones
 It's dark as a dungeon
 Damp as the dew
 The danger is double
 And the pleasures are few
 Where the rain never falls
 Where the sun never shines
 It's dark as a dungeon
 Way down in the mine
 Where the rain never falls
 Where the sun never shines
 It's dark as a dungeon
 Way down in the mine