Dark as a Dungeon

Dark As A Dungeon - Tennessee Ernie Ford

Come and listen you 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

Till the stream of your blood

Runs as black as the coal

Where it's dark as a dungeon

And damp as the dew

Danger is double

And pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls

And the sun never shines

It's a dark as a dungeon way

Down in the mine

Well it's many a man

That I've seen in my day

That would lived just to labor

His whole life away

Like a fiend with his dope

And like a drunkard his wine

A man will have lust for

The lure of the mine

Where it's dark as a dungeon

And damp as the dew

Danger is double

And pleasures are few

Where the rain never falls

And the sun never shines

And it's a dark as a dungeon

Way down in the mine

The midnight or the morning

Or the breaking of day

Are the same to the miner

Who labors away

Where the demons of death

Often come by surprise

One fellow of the slate

And you're buried alive

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

And it's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines