Harry Belafonte Dark As A Dungeon song 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