Dark As A Dungeon Lyrics - Coal - Kathy Mattea

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 

Its 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 youre 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, its dark as a dungeon way down in the mines