Kathy Mattea - Dark as a Dungeon lyrics

Come and listen you fellows so
Young and so fine
And seek not your fortunes in
The dark dreary mines
It will 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
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 mines

It?s a many a man I have known in my day
Who lived just to labor his whole life away
Like the fiend with his dope
Or a drunkard his wine
A man will have lust for
The lure of the mines

Where 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 mines

Well, the midnight or the morning
Or the middle of day
Is the same to the miner digging away
Where the demons of death
Often come by surprise
One fall of the slate and you?re buried alive

Where 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 mines

Well, 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 digging my bones

Where 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 mines
Oh, it?s dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mines