Dark as a Dungeon (Live at Memorial Auditorium, Worcester, MA, November 1975) Lyrics

Gather 'round me all you fellows, so young and so fine
And seek not your fortune way down in the mine
It'll form like a habit and seep in your soul
'Til the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal

It's dark as a dungeon and it's damp as the tomb
Where the dangers are 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 mine

Now, there's many a man I've seen in my day
Who'd live just to labor his whole life away
Like a fiend with his token or a drunkard his wine
A man must have lust for the lure of the mine

It's dark as a dungeon and it's damp as the tomb
Where the dangers are 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 mine

Now, I hope when I'm gone up in nature's new road
My body will blacken and turn into coal
And I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
And I'll pity the miner for digging my bone

It's dark as a dungeon and it's damp as the tomb
Where the dangers are 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 mine

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine