Dark As a Dungeon 歌词

Come listen you fellows, young and so fine Seek not your fortune in the dark, dreary mines It will form as a habit and seep in your soul Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal And 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 It's a-many a man that I've 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 mines And 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 Oh midnight, or the morning, or the middle of the day It's the same to the miner who labors away Where the demons of death often come by surprise One fall of the slate and you're buried alive And 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 I hope when I'm gone 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 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 And it's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines