Dark as a Dungeon Songtext
von Marley’s Ghost

Come all you young fellas 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 mine

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


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 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

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