It's as dark as a dungeon way down in the mineI never will forget one time when I was on a little visit down home in Ebenezer, Kentucky.I was a-talkin' to an old man that had known me ever since the day I was born, and an old friendof the family. He says, Son, you don't know how lucky you are to have a nice job like you've gotand don't have to dig out a livin' from under these old hills and hollers like me and your pappyused to. When I asked him why he never had left and tried some other kind of work, he says,Nawsir, you just won't do that. If ever you get this old coal dust in your blood, you're justgonna be a plain old coal miner as long as you live. He went on to say, It's a habitsorta like chewin' tobaccer.Come and listen you fellows, so young and so fine,And seek not your fortune in the dark, dreary mines.It will form as a habit and seep in your soul,'Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal.It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,Where danger is double and pleasures are few,Where the rain never falls and the sun never shinesIt's dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.It's a-many a man I have 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 mines.
Lyrics by Harry Belafonte
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