Dark As A Dungeon

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
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 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
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