Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Dark as a Dungeon lyrics

Come and listen you fellers, so young and so fine And seek not your fortunes in the dark dreary mine It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul 'Til the stream of your blood is as black as the coal It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew Where dangers 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 There is many a man I have seen in my day Who lived just to labor his whole life away Like a fiend with his dope or a drunkard his wine A man will have lust for the lure of the mine It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew Where dangers 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 I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll My body will blacken and turn into coal And I'll look from the door of my heavenly home And pity the miner a-diggin' my bones 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 Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines