Come listen you fellers
Young and so fine
And seek not your fortune
In the dark dreary mine
You will form as a habit
And seep in your soul
'Til the stream of your blood
Is as black as the coal
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
And it's dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mines
But it's many a man
I have known in my day
Who lived just to labor
His whole life away
Like the fiend with his dope
Or the drunkard his wine
A man will have lust
For the lure of the mine
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
And it's dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mines
On the midnight or the mornin'
Or the middle of day
It's the same to the miner
Who labors away
Where the demon of death
Often comes by surprise
One fall of the slate
And you're buried alive
Where it's d k as a dungeon
And damp as the dew
Where the danger is double
And the pleasures are few
Where the ain never falls
And the sun never shines
And it's dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mines
I hope when I'm gone
And the ages shall roll
My body will blacken
And turn into coal
And I'll look from the door
Of my heavenly home
And pity the miner
For diggin' my bones
Where 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