Dark as a Dungeon Lyrics

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 and the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls, the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

Kathy Mattea - Coal

Apr 2008

1. the L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore
2. Blue Diamond Mines
3. Red-Winged Black Bird
4. Lawrence Jones
5. Green Rolling Hills
6. Coal Tattoo
7. Sally in the Garden
8. You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive
9. Dark as a Dungeon
10. Coming Of the Roads
11. Black Lung