文本歌词

Dark as the Dungeon - Cisco Houston
Come all you young fellers
So young and so fine
And seek not your fortunes 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
It's dark as a dungeon 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 a dungeon 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 can have lust for the lure of the mine
It's dark as a dungeon 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 a dungeon way down in the mines
I hope when I'm dead
And the ages shall roll
That my body will blacken
And turn into coal
I will look from the door of my heavenly home
And pity the miner a digging my bones
It's dark as a dungeon
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 a dungeon way down in the mines