Harry Belafonte - Dark As A Dungeon lyrics

Come all you young fellers so young and so fine Seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine It'll form as a habit it'll seed in your soul Till the blood in your veins runs black as the coal For it's dark as a dungeon and it's damp as the dew Where the dangers are double the pleasures are few Where the rain never falls the sun never shines Oh God, it's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines Oh, it's many a man I've known in my day Who lived just to labor his whole life away Like a fiend for his dope a drunkard his wine A man will have lust for the lure of the mine Oh,I hope when I die and the ages do roll Yes, my body will harden and turn into coal And I look from the door of my heavenly home To see a poor miner a diggin' my bones