Jean-Marie Carroll - Dark as a Dungeon lyrics

Come all you young you fellows So young and do fine Seek not your fortune In the dark, dreary mines It will form like a habit And seep in your soul 'Til of your blood Is black as the coal It's dark as a dungeon And damp as the dew The dangers are 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 There's many a man I have 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 And I hope when I'm gone 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 miners A - diggin' my bones It's dark as a dungeon And damp as the dew The dangers are 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