Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Dark As A Dungeon, artist - John Mellencamp. Album song Other People's Stuff, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 06.12.2018
Record label: Republic
Song language: English
Dark As A Dungeon |
Come all you young fellers so young and so fine |
And seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine |
It’ll form like a habit and seep to your soul |
Til the stream of your blood flows as black as the coal |
It’s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew |
Where the dangers are double 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 is many a man I have seen in my day |
Who lived just to labor his whole life away |
Like the fiend with his dope and the drunkard his wine |
A man will have lust for the lure of the mine |
It’s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew |
Where the dangers are double 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 |
Come midnight, or morning, or the middle of the day |
It’s the same to the miner who labors away |
For the demons of death often come by surprise |
One fall of the slate and you’re buried alive |
For it’s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew |
Where the dangers are double 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 |
I hope when I’m dead and the ages shall roll |
My body will blacken and turn into coal |
I’ll look from the door of my heavenly home |
And pity the miners who diggin' my bones |
For it’s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew |
Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few |
Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines |
And it’s dark as a dungeon way down in the mines |
Come all you young fellers so young and so fine |
And seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine |