Dark As A Dungeon Lyrics - Singles - Jerry Garcia

Come all you young fellows so young and so fine 

And seek not your fortune way down in the mine 

It will form like a habit and seep in your soul 

Till the stream of your blood flows as black as the coal 

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It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew 

The danger is doubled and the pleasures are few 

Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines 

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

There's many a man I have seen in my day 

Who lived just to labor his whole life away 

Like the fiend with his dope and the drunkard his wine 

A man can have lust for the lure of the mine 

[Chorus] 

Oh when I am dead 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-digging my bones 

[Chorus]