DARK AS A DUNGEON

Come listen all you fellas so young and so fine
And seek not your fortune in the 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

Where it’s dark as a dungeon
And damp as a dew
Where the danger is doubled o’er
And the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
The sun never shines
As dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mines

Now there’s many a man I’ve seen in my day
Who lives just to labour his whole life away
Like a fiend with his dope, a drunkard his wine
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine