Marley's Ghost - Dark As A Dungeon lyrics

Come all you young fellows, 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 'til the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal (Chorus:) Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew Where the danger is 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 (Chorus) Well, 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 (Chorus) Well, I hope when I die 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, a-diggin' my bones (Chorus