Come and listen you fellows So young and so fine And seek not your fortune In a dark dreary mine It'll 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 Danger is double And pleasures are few Where the rain never falls And the sun never shines It's a dark as a dungeon way Down in the mine
Well it's many a man
That I've seen in my day That would lived just to labor His whole life away Like a fiend with his ****
And like 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
Danger is double And pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls And the sun never shines
And it's a dark as a dungeon Way down in the mine
The midnight or the morning Or the breaking of day
Are the same to the miner Who labors away
Where the demons of death Often come by surprise
One fellow of the slate And you're buried alive
It's dark as a dungeon
And damp as the dew Where the danger is 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
I hope when I'm dead And the ages shall roll That my body will blacken And turn into coal I will look from the door Of my heavenly home
And pity the miner a' diggin' my bones
And it's dark as a dungeon And damp as the dew
Where the danger is 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
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