Glen Campbell - Dark As A Dungeon lyrics

Come and listen you fellows, so young and so fine And seek not your fortune in the dark, dreary mines It will form as a habit and seep in your soul 'Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal [Chorus] 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 mine It's a-many a man I have seen in my day Who lived just to labor his whole life away Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine A man will have lust for the lure of the mines 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 a-diggin' my bones [Chorus]