Dark As A Dungeon-Jeff Black

[ti:Dark As A Dungeon] [ar:Jeff Black] [al:The Appalachians] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dark As A Dungeon - Jeff Black [00:14.25]Come and listen your fellwers [00:16.59] [00:17.11]So young and so fine [00:19.74] [00:20.46]And seek not your fortune [00:23.25]Way down in mine [00:25.83] [00:26.70]It'll form as a habit [00:28.36] [00:29.63]And seep in your soul [00:31.75] [00:32.66]Till the streams of your blood [00:34.68]Turn as black as the coal [00:38.71] [00:40.38]Where it's dark as a dungeon [00:43.77]And damp as the dew [00:46.00] [00:46.71]Where the dangers are many [00:49.84]And the pleasures are few [00:52.40] [00:52.95]Where the rain never falls [00:54.77] [00:56.07]And the sun never shines [00:58.49] [00:59.22]It's dark as a dungeon [01:02.10]Way down in the mine [01:05.18] [01:20.87]Well it's many a man [01:22.07] [01:23.88]That I've known in my day [01:26.13] [01:27.07]Would lived just to labor [01:29.51] [01:30.15]His whole life away [01:32.36] [01:33.14]Like a fiend with his dope [01:34.94] [01:36.32]And a drunkard his wine [01:38.85] [01:39.58]A man will have lust for [01:42.63]The lure of the mine [01:45.42] [01:47.14]Where it's dark as a dungeon [01:49.73] [01:50.35]And damp as the dew [01:52.70] [01:53.43]Where the dangers are many [01:56.53]And pleasures are few [01:59.60]Where the rain never falls [02:01.45] [02:02.76]And the sun never shines [02:05.83]It's dark as a dungeon [02:08.40] [02:08.96]Way down in the mine [02:12.16] [02:27.24]Well I hope when I'm dead [02:28.99] [02:30.48]And the ages shall roll [02:33.39]My body will blacken [02:35.69] [02:36.29]And turn into coal [02:38.44] [02:39.30]Well I look from the door [02:41.25] [02:42.48]Of my heavenly home [02:44.89] [02:45.58]And pity the miner a digging my bones [02:52.04] [02:53.06]Well it's dark as a dungeon [02:55.76] [02:56.28]And damp as the dew [02:58.57] [02:59.09]Where the dangers are many [03:02.32]The pleasures are few [03:04.95] [03:05.46]Where the rain never falls [03:07.52] [03:08.53]And the sun never shines [03:11.65]It's dark as a dungeon [03:14.76]Way down in the mine [03:17.56] [03:19.38]Where the rain never falls [03:21.47] [03:22.43]And the sun never shines [03:25.71]It's dark as a dungeon [03:28.72]Way down in the mine