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