Dark As A Dungeon Lyrics - Harry Belafonte

Come all you young fellers so young and so fine 

Seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine 

It'll form as a habit it'll seed in your soul 

Till the blood in your veins runs black as the coal 

For it's dark as a dungeon and it's damp as the dew 

Where the dangers are double the pleasures are few 

Where the rain never falls the sun never shines 

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

Oh it's many a man I've known in my day 

Who lived just to labor his whole life away 

Like a fiend for his dope a drunkard his wine 

A man will have lust for the lure of the mine 

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Oh I hope when I die and the ages do roll 

Yes my body will harden and turn into coal 

And I look from the door of my heavenly home 

To see a poor miner a diggin' my bones 

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