Chieftains (The)

Dark as a Dungeon
Oh come all you young fellers so young and so fineSeek not your fortune in a dark dreary mineIt'll form as a habit and seep in your soul'Til the stream of your blood runs as black as the coalWhere it's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dewWhere the danger is double and pleasures are fewWhere the rain never falls the sun never shinesIt's a dark as a dungeon way down in the mineWell it's many a man that I've seen in my dayWho lived just to labor his whole life awayLike a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wineA man will have lust for the lure of the mineWhere it's dark as a dungeon And pray when I'm dead and my ages shall rollThat my body would blacken and turn into coalThen I'll look from the door of my heavenly home and pity the miner digging my bonesWhere it's dark as a dungeon Aus Songtexte Mania