Dark as a Dungeon Songtext

von Marley's Ghost

Marley's Ghost
Ghost Country
Dark As A Dungeon
Come all you young fellows, so young and so fine,
And seek not your fortune in a dark, dreary mine.
It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul
'til the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal.

Where it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew.
Where the danger is 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.

Well, there's many a man I have known 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 mine.

Well, I hope when I die 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.