Jerry Garcia Dark As A Dungeon lyrics

Come all you young fellows, so young and so fine
And seek not your fortune in the dark, [Incomprehensible] mine
It will 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 and damp as the dew
Where the danger is doubled 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 mines

There's many a man I've seen 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 doubled 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 mines

Ah, oh, when I'm dead 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 doubled 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 mines

Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon, way down in the mines