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Artist: Kathy Mattea
Canonical path: /kathy-mattea/dark-as-a-dungeon
Related lyric paths: 6
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Dark as a Dungeon
Read Dark as a Dungeon lyrics by Kathy Mattea on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Dark as a Dungeon
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Oh, come all you young fellers, young and so fine
Seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine
It'll form as a habit and seep in your soul
Till the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal
Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
Danger is double, pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
Well, I pray when I'm dead and the ages shall roll
That my body will blacken and turn into coal
Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home
And pity the miner digging my bones
Where it's dark as a dungeon, damp as the dew
Danger is double, pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine
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