Dark As a Dungeon

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Come all you young fellers, so 
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young and so fine
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And seek not your fortunes way down
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 in the mine
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It will form like a habit and seep
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 in your soul
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'Til the stream of your blood 
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flows as black as the coal

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It's dark as a dungeon and damp 
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as the dew
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Where the dangers are double and 
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the pleasures are few
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Where the rain never falls and the
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 sun never shines
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It's dark as a dungeon way down 
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in the mines

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There is many a man I have seen 
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in my day
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Who lived just to labor his whole
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 life away
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Like the fiend with his dope and 
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the drunkard his wine
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A man will have lust for the lure
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 of the mine

D                             C  
It's dark as a dungeon and damp 
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as the dew
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Where the dangers are double and 
      C             G
the pleasures are few
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Where the rain never falls and the
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 sun never shines
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It's dark as a dungeon way down 
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in the mines

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I hope when I'm dead and the ages
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 shall roll
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That my body will blacken and turn
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 into coal
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I will look from the door of my 
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heavenly home
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And pity the miner a' diggin' my 
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bones

D                          C     
It's dark as a dungeon an  d damp
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 as the dew
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Where the dangers are double and 
      C             G
the pleasures are few
G                                 
Where the rain never falls and the
       C         D
 sun never shines
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It's dark as a dungeon way down 
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in the mines
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It's dark as a dungeon way down 
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in the mines
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It's dark as a dungeon way down 
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in the mines