Joan Baez - Dark as a Dungeon lyrics

It's as dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine

Come and listen you fellows
So young and so fine
And 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

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 mine
It's a many a man I have seen 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

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