Dark as a Dungeon

Come all you young fellers so young and so fine
 And seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine
 It will form as a habit and seep in your soul
 Till the stream of your life blood runs as black as the coal
 It's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
 Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few
 Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
 It's a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
 I hope when I'll die and my ages shall roll
 My body would blacken and turn into coal
 I'll take a look from the door of my heavenly home
 And pity the miners a' digging my bones
 It's many a man I've seen in my day
 That lives just to labor his poor life away
 Like the fiend with his dope, 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
 Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few
 Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
 It's a dark as a dungeon way down in the mine