Johnny Cash - Dark as a Dungeon lyrics
[Johnny Cash - Dark as a Dungeon lyrics]
Oh come all you young fellers
So young and so fine
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 damp as the dew
Danger is double and pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
The sun never shines
It's a dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine
Well it's many a man that
That I've seen in my day
Like a fiend with his dope and
A drunkard with his wine
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine
And a pray when I'm dead
And my ages shall roll
That my body would blacken and turn into coal
Then I'll look from the door
Of my heavenly home
And pity the miner digging my bones
Where it's dark as a dungeon damp as the dew
Danger is double pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
The sun never shines
It's a dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine
So young and so fine
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 damp as the dew
Danger is double and pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
The sun never shines
It's a dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine
Well it's many a man that
That I've seen in my day
Like a fiend with his dope and
A drunkard with his wine
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine
And a pray when I'm dead
And my ages shall roll
That my body would blacken and turn into coal
Then I'll look from the door
Of my heavenly home
And pity the miner digging my bones
Where it's dark as a dungeon damp as the dew
Danger is double pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
The sun never shines
It's a dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine