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Dark as a Dungeon
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Glen Campbell
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Come and listen you fellows, so young and so fine,
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And seek not your fortune in the dark, dreary mines.
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It will form as a habit and seep in your soul,
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'Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal.
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[Chorus]
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It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,
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Where danger is double and pleasures are few,
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Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines
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It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.
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It's a-many a man I have seen in my day,
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Who lived just to labor his whole life away.
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Like a fiend with his dope and a drunkard his wine,
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A man will have lust for the lure of the mines.
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I hope when I'm gone and the ages shall roll,
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My body will blacken and turn into coal.
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Then I'll look from the door of my heavenly home,
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And pity the miner a-diggin' my bones.
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[Chorus]
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