Kathy Mattea - Dark as a Dungeon lyrics

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Come and listen you fellows so young and so fine

And seek not your fortunes in the dark dreary mines

It will form as a habit and seep in your soul

Till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal

Where 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 mines

It's a many a man I have known in my day

Who lived just to labor his whole life away

Like the fiend with his dope or a drunkard his wine

A man will have lust for the lure of the mines

Where 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 mines

Well, the midnight or the morning or the middle of day

Is the same to the miner digging away

Where the demons of death often come by surprise

One fall of the slate and you?re buried alive

Where 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 mines

Well, 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

Where 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 mines

Oh, it's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines