Dark As A Dungeon

G G C D7 D7 G C G G C D7 Come listen you fellows so young and so fine D7 G C G Oh seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine G C D7 It will form as a habit and seep in your soul D7 G C G 'Till the stream of your life blood is as black as the coal G D7 G It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew G D7 G Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few G G7 C D D7 Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines D7 G C G It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines G G C D7 G G C G Versee 2 G C D7 I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll D7 G C G My body will blacken and turn into coal G C D7 Then I'll look from the door from my heavenly home D7 G C G And pity the miner a-digging my bones G C D7 It's a-many a man I've known in my day D7 G C G Who lived just to labor his whole life away G C D7 Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine D7 G C G A man will have lust for the lure of the mine G D7 G It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew G D7 G Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few G G7 C D7 Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines D7 G C G It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines