Dark As A Dungeon
Merle Travis
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Come all you fellows so young and so fine
And seek not your fortunes in the dark dreary mine
It will form as a habit and seep in your soul
'Till the blood in your body runs as black as the coal.
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It's dark as a dungeon and 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 dark as a dungeon way down in the mines.
There's many a man I have seen in my day
Who lived but to labor his whole life away.
Like a fiend and his dope or a drunkard his wine,
A man will have lust for the lure of the mines.
Someday when I die and the ages will roll,
My body will blacken and turn into coal.
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home,
And pity the poor miner a-digging my bones.