Dark as a Dungeon
John Mellencamp
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Come all you young fellers so young and so fine And seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine It'll form like a habit and seep through your soul Til the stream of your blood flows as black as the coal It's dark as the dungeons and damp as the dew Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines It's dark as the dungeons way down in the mines There is 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 will have lust for the lure of the mine It's dark as the dungeons and damp as the dew Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines It's dark as the dungeons way down in the mines Come midnight, or morning, or the middle of day It's the same to the miner who labors away For the demons of death often come by surprise One fall of the slate and you're buried alive For it's dark as the dungeons and damp as the dew Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines It's dark as the dungeons way down in the mines I hope when I'm dead and the ages shall roll My body will blacken and turn into coal I'll look from the door of my heavenly home And pity the miners who diggin' my bones It's dark as the dungeons and damp as the dew Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few And the rain never falls and the sun never shines And it's dark as the dungeons way down in the mines Come all you young fellers so young and so fine And seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine
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Written by: Merle Travis
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